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TIL “not clapping hard enough” was one of the reasons Jang Sung-taek, former North Korean official, was executed for

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7r0Ex TIL the king penguins on Antarctica poop so much N2O, laughing gas, that researchers go "cuckoo" while studying them.
b9K60 TIL: A sperm contain 37.5 MB of genetic information and that 11,250 Terabyte of information is transmitted / ejected. that is like 13636.3 of PS5 storage.
1g17 TIL that the little boy from the Shining teaches Anatomy at a community college in Kentucky and he tells his students at the beginning of each semester that they will fail class if they ask him anything about The Shining.
0dXXL TIL of William Walker, an American physician, lawyer, journalist, mercenary, slavery supporter, and Southern folk hero from from Tennessee. Walker seized control of Nicaragua from 1856 to 1857, and convinced many U.S. Southerners of the desirability of creating a Confederate empire in Latin America.
XEQPr TIL about people who cannot feel fear due to a rare genetic disorder called Urbach-Wieth disease, which damage the amygdalae in the brain. The amygdala serves as a go-between for the parts of the brain that interpret sensory inputs and those that initiate fearful responses.