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TIL Before being stationed in Antarctica Australian physicians have their appendix removed to ensure they do not get appendicitis.

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OoQ44 TIL people who refer to themselves by name during inner monologues are calmer, less stressed and more confident than those who use “I” or “me” according to a research done by Michigan State University
XPP6 TIL in LOTR Elrond and Aragorn were distantly related through Elrond’s brother, Elros
L9n0 TIL in 1990, First Lady Barbara Bush criticized The Simpsons as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.“ Marge wrote a letter to her, in character, politely telling her not to be so judgmental and explaining that her family tried their best. Mrs Bush later apologized for her “loose tongue”
9YPj7 TIL when the Northridge Earthquake caused a massive power outage in L.A. in 1994, panicked residents called 911 to express alarm about a strange ethereal light overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way Galaxy for the first time.
5YBG9 TIL that in 2013, a head injury left an Australian woman with a French accent. This is a case of foreign accent syndrome, which is a medical condition in which patients acquire a foreign accent through a stroke or head trauma.