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TIL The creator of Animal Crossing was inspired to make a game about friendship, family, and community after experiencing loneliness upon moving to a new city.

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nvnY TIL Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s Comet and predicted he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
kJZde TIL about Ring Theory; a psychological model that essentially serves as an instruction guide for who you are allowed to trauma dump on if you are emotionally affected from knowing someone that has experienced trauma.
oBDBA TIL that witchcraft still exists in 2020
wDZM TIL that in soviet Russia there was a civilian award for bearing and raising 7 or more children called “The Order of Maternal Glory”
ADyDn TIL in 2006 DNA evidence from the saliva on the letters Jack the Ripper sent to the police were identified as female suggesting the killer may have been Mary Pearcey who was later executed for a different murder.