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TIL Regis Philbin holds the Guinness World Record for clocking more hours in front of a television camera than anyone else in the history of television

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dD6kj TIL that 46% of the world population has an indo-european language as first language.
KYo7J TIL: That disagreement surrounds the method by which kleptomania is considered and diagnosed. On one hand, some researchers believe that kleptomania is merely theft and dispute the suggestion that there are psychological mechanisms involved, while others observe it as substance-related misuse.
DQXEp TIL about Ngerulmud, the capital of Palau and the least populous capital city in the world. It has an official population of 0.
KO606 TIL during WW2, there was an Australian dog whose hearing was so acute that it could warn air force personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they came and before they showed up on radar. He could also differentiate the sounds between allied and enemy planes
GWl7 TIL that in the 1960’s a woman lived together with a dolphin in a partially flooded house for 10 weeks as part of an experiment to teach it to speak. The lengthy experiment finally involved her masturbating the dolphin and tripping on LSD with it.