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

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mxRBM TIL that transoceanic internet cabling (AKA the "internet backbone") is a fiber optic line that is about as thick as some sturdy home ethernet cabling
9aRG TIL when Matthew McConaughey was arrested for possession of marijuana in 1999, police found him playing the bongos and dancing, naked, while another man joined in and clapped along.
57Ok TIL that after Haiti’s independence in 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, self-proclaimed Emperor of Haiti, ordered and carried out a massacre of the entire remaining French population of the island, numbering 3000-5000 people of all ages and gender.
OYw6 TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s “The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838) was about 4 shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy–Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker.
8aY6P TIL The year is not actually 365 days long, they are roughly 365.25 days long, so that's why every 4 years we have a leap year with 366 days.