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TIL that researchers who study crime acknowledge that bedwetting is not linked with sociopathic behavior.

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xjo TIL that the word ‘quite’ means 'very’ in American English, but means 'fairly’ in British English.
rYM4 TIL that the FBI helped frame four men for a 1965 murder in order to protect an informant. Two died in prison; the other two served more than 30 years before being exonerated.
VMbRk TIL that children's entertainer Blippi used to be the grossout comedian Steezy Grossman, who's humor was very heavily focused on defecation.
0w9wN TIL Madame Tussaud, of Wax Museum fame, was an artist in the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make wax death masks of both of their faces immediately after they were guillotined.
789k7 TIL that Beginning in the 11th century, large numbers of agrarian Japonic-speaking peoples settled the Ryukyus, with Kikai as the origin of various successive migration waves across the archipelago. Majority of modern day Ryukyuan people, culture and language seem to come from this period.