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TIL Stanford psychologists find that jokes help us cope with horrifying images

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5VmW8 TIL In 1971, Kissinger said to Nixon: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.” He was referring to Chile’s democratic choice of a communist leader, Salvador Allende.
W7OYA TIL in 2007 a mistake resulted in a stripper visiting a student during class, whipping him in front of other students and leading him around on all fours before undressing to the sound of Brittany Spears
mxgLv TIL Researchers have uncovered the earliest evidence of a person being hit and killed by a meteorite falling to Earth, which killed one person and injured another, occurred in what is now Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, on Aug. 22, 1888.
87RZ TIL there is a group of people in northern California and southern Oregon who wish to secede from their states and create a 51st state, to be called Jefferson.
4X8P5 TIL that not only is USA the 3rd most populated country in the world, but if it had ONE BILLION MORE people, it would still be the 3rd most populated country in the world.