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TIL that nobody has ever been arrested for a crime in Tristan da Cunha, a remote group of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean that boasts a population of 250

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6wPJ TIL Bruce Springsteen’s classic, Born to Run, almost became the official song of New Jersey until legislators listened to the lyrics and realized the song was about wanting to get out of New Jersey.
wl81 TIL a 2009 Oxford study on SSRIs found that SSRI antidepressants caused almost all participants to feel less empathy, sympathy, and positive emotions. Some reported feeling suicidal due to the SSRI emotional numbness and one began to self-harm in an effort to feel emotion.
VMWj0 TIL that in Italy the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975
vPPyr TIL banana planks can actually walk and move up to 40cm in a lifetime
XEVZE TIL that before becoming president of the American Pediatric Society Saul Krugman experimented on mentally disabled children by purposefully infecting them with Hepatitis