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TIL Netherlands has more population density than India
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TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.
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TIL that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. It is a legitimate phenomenon called "Depressive Realism." Depressed people have a more accurate appraisal of the world, and non-depressed individuals' appraisals are positively biased.
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TIL In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote only twice of “survival of the fittest” but 95 times about love , 92 times about moral sensitivity, and 200 times about mind and brain!
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TIL Pimps wear lots of gold jewelry bought at pawn shops to “re-pawn” for bail money since cash is confiscated upon arrest but jewelry is not.
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TIL - When Mount Everest was measured in 1854 the exact value was 29,000 feet. Despite being accurate, Andrew Waugh published the value as 29,002 feet to avoid the public assuming it was merely a rounded estimate. Thus he was known as "the first man to put 2 feet on top of Everest".