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TIL that there is a medical condition called Derealization, and it’s when you don’t feel real.

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Z87Xo TIL that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie posthumously saved a girl’s life by having written in one of her stories about a rare poison. That same poison was killing this girl in real life, and the doctors had no clue, but a nurse happened to be reading that story at the time.
obDY TIL that bread did not exist in Japan until 1543, when it was brought to the archipelago by Portuguese missionaries. The new food was initially popular, but disappeared once the country cut ties with the west. It would not be eaten again until the 19th century.
ADxVx TIL about the Heart Breaking Life of the Elephant Man who Died at Age 27 and never enjoyed life to the Fullest
4kR0o TIL: Some American chocolate brands (like hershey’s) add butyric acid to longer shelf life of the chocolate, here why some chocolates smells like vomit
epwj6 TIL some flatworm species engage in Penis Fencing to determine who has to be the mother (they got both kinds of genitalia)