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TIL about Arctic Hysteria (also known as Piblokto), a culture-bound syndrome that mostly affects the female Inuit population. Symptoms include tearing off clothes, running naked through the snow, screaming, throwing things, and performing other wild behaviors.

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xw4b TIL that Chicago Tribune staff accidentally discovered never seen before photos of the steamship Eastland that capsized in 1915 (3 years after Titanic disaster) off the coast of Chicago due to being top heavy and causing the ghastly death of 844 passengers
0wmGN TIL There are 9 different accepted time standards used around the world. Many of these time standards vary from each other by hundredths of a second to several minutes (excluding time zone variations and DST).
1mw7 TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges
KO5NB TIL In 1985, France bombed a Greenpeace ship in Auckland harbour, NZ, to prevent it interfering with their nuclear tests. One person was killed, and for 2 months the French government tried to cover it up, before admitting full responsibility. No official apology has ever been given,
wo8J8 TIL that the reason that "The Office, An American Workplace" (the in-world documentary in The Office TV series) began filming was to document the fallout from the suicide of a Dunder Mifflin employee named Tom Peets (mentioned briefly in S2 E8). The focus was later changed to the Scranton branch.