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TIL Israeli jets deliberately make sonic booms over Gaza to “send a message”, which led to miscarriages, panic attacks and damaged buildings

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XGLR TIL that Free Speech Does NOT Protect Cyberharassment… Online perpetrators can be criminally prosecuted for criminal threats, cyberstalking, cyberharassment, sexual invasions of privacy and bias intimidation. They can be sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
EgKrx TIL a 2023 study compared the health outcomes of over 4,000 patients with hypochondriasis to the health outcomes of about 40,000 control patients matched for age & other demographics; a key finding was that people with hypochondriasis were over four times more likely to die from suicide.
j61wR TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth's atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture's stories/myths
R7r19 TIL the world's oldest printed book is 'The Diamond Sutra' and it was created in 868 A.D. by a man named Wang Jie. At the bottom-right corner he printed: “Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents.”
PYaXE TIL of ‘Sin Eaters’ whose job it was to “eat” the sins of a deceased person. The position only paid a couple dollars per sin eating and it usually called for the individual to eat a piece of bread that had been sitting on the dead person’s chest or lips.