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TIL That an average NFL game only has 11 minutes of live gameplay

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jaeX TIL of the Guinea Worm. In 1986, it infected 3.5 million people . Now it is down to 2 cases in 2016. It stands to be the second globally eradicated infectious disease in history, after smallpox.
mxNOM TIL that Stockholm syndrome is not a real syndrome, and cannot be found in any clinical psychology textbooks (DSM-5 etc). The term has achieved its widespread fame almost solely due to media oversimplification of complex psychological phenomena.
w99E TIL the original Spy Kids movie has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
DlEj TIL that a town in Japan painted a broken phone booth white so that people in grief can send messages to lost loved ones.
p8ZmZ TIL of the "Infinite Cat Project", starting in 2003, people have been taking pictures of their cats looking at the previous cat, and so on, and so on...