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TIL that the 'Man-Child' is a clinical concept (Puer Aeternus) whose emotional immaturity is the direct 'shadow' of true adulthood, meaning every adult demanding freedom without responsibility is failing their own psychological development.

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lx4V TIL on Titan the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping “wings” attached to their arms.
BrGbd TIL The US had secretly buried nuclear waste in Greenland during the Cold War that neither the US nor Denmark wants to clean up now.
WemX TIL from 1970 to 2010, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52%. We are not in the “beginning” of the Sixth Great Extinction. We are in the middle of it.
oG4L TIL that in the novel, Forrest Gump goes to space on a NASA mission. It crash lands on an island where he’s stuck for years. These scenes weren’t in the movie, but Tom Hanks did go on to star in Apollo 13 and Castaway.
ANVbg TIL: Aluminum soda cans are lined by a thin layer of plastic on the inside.