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TIL That attention seeking and drama addiction could stem from childhood neglect

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LoXv TIL The South Pole experiences a 6-month period of darkness, during which scientists at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station have a tradition of watching The Thing, a movie about a humanoid alien who attacks an Arctic research outpost.
DZar TIL that while awaiting his execution via guillotine, King Louis XVI of France actually pardoned his executioners for the crime of murdering their king.
x66d5 TIL The seahorse is the only case of male pregnancy in the animal world
pEMO TIL that an African man won a court case in the 1650s that let him keep another African, John Castor, as his slave. That means that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.
kOOZW TIL that there is a group of monasteries in Greece called Meteora that are carefully perched on top of cliffs several hundred metres high