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TIL: fossilized vomit is thing and it's called regurgitalite

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e0Zlg TIL that the Berlin Wall was not supposed to be torn down, but due to a mistake by the government it was torn down anyways.
b6gO0 TIl that in 1994 during an attempted diplomatic visit to Ireland Boris Yeltsin caused a diplomatic incident when his plane landed at Shannon airport and he failed to step off the plane onto Irish soil because he was too drunk to walk
vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.
jNg1M TIL Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset for 30 consecutive days is associated with anticancer proteomic signature and upregulates key regulatory proteins of glucose and lipid metabolism, circadian clock, DNA repair, cytoskeleton remodeling, immune system and cognitive function
ZpZ0p TiL the term "Gaslighting" actually came from a movie of the same name where the husband tricks the wife into thinking she's mentally unwell so he can steal from her.