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TIL about a guy who disappeared in to the woods for 27 years and survived by committing about 1000 burglaries

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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.
Yplv TIL Pluto is as big as russia.
0JX5 TIL that every year in ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish ANY person from the city-state for 10 years.
9Ypp7 TIL that for more then 50 years, there was an operational telephone booth in the Mojave desert, in the middle of nowhere.
x6bV1 TIL: scholars Karl Popper and Wittgenstein once argued whether philosophical problems existed. After Popper said moral rules were legitimate problems, Wittgenstein pointed a fire poker at Popper, daring him to give an example, to which Popper replied: Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers