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Today I learned that there is a specific name for places that feel like an altered reality

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VMEJ0 TIL - Benjamin Franklin created mental health institutions in Philadelphia paid for by a tax on Authors (like himself) "because they happened to get a greater share of intelligence at birth just as the retarded happened to get less."
kDA7 TIL sportscaster Jim Nantz wants his breakfast toast so burnt, he carries around a picture of burnt toas in his wallet to show servers to save time.
PYAxJ TIL Giant Pandas are not evolutionary deadends. Humans are just destroying their habitats faster than they can adapt.
8R8b TIL that while high profile scientists such as Carl Sagan have advocated the transmission of messages into outer space, Stephen Hawking has warned against it, suggesting that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on.
mxoXx TIL that Time tends to recognize Presidents-Elect as their person of the year as a tradition, except in a few cases.