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TIL creativity has been linked to depression, anxiety, and “madness”, with writers being 121% more likely to suffer from bipolar depression than the general population and 50% more likely to kill themselves.

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b5Ma TIL in 1992 a youth group descended into a French cave with steel brushes to remove graffiti… and ended up partially removing 15,000 year old bison cave paintings.
GYKJ4 TIL Despite being a symbol for the antiestablishment, the rights to the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta are owned by WarnerMedia. They had $33 billion in revenue in 2018 and Guy Fawkes masks contribute to that number.
Bond TIL: A 3GHz CPU takes roughly 0.33 nanoseconds to perform a simple equation. 0.33ns is to 1 second as 1 second is to 95 years.
a8LNJ TIL about Nushawn Williams, a New York City man who, despite knowing he was HIV positive, claimed to have had unprotected sex with 200-300 women and spread the virus to at least 16 people. He was sentenced in 1999 to 4–12 years in prison, but has remained in involuntary civil commitment since 2010.
a8BwZ TIL when 22-year-old nanny Marissa Mowry announced she was pregnant, the 11-year-old she was babysitting told his mom it's his son. A DNA test confirmed he was the father and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.