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TIL Spontaneous Human Combustion Is (Almost Definitely) a Myth

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R1o9 TIL Less than 5% of the population has a biological disdain for all music, it is called musical anhedonia.
d8BKQ TIL in 1991, former child actress Dana Plato entered a video store demanding the money in the cash register. The clerk called 9-1-1 and said, "I've just been robbed by the girl who played Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes." She later died in 1999 of a drug overdose.
OAeY TIL : In 2012, two Canadians were charged with stealing $18,000,000 in maple syrup.
n74d TIL that when you search “I want to kill myself” on google, or a related phrase, it will show the phone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline before the results.
xVOP0 TIL about Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity, in which thousands of gallons of water are pumped to a reservoir at a higher elevation using off-peak electricity, then released to turn turbines and produce electricity at a later date. It's a non-chemical form of battery.