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TIL the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is where one stumbles upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.

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RNQ9 TIL that red, irritated eyes after swimming isn’t from over-chlorination; it’s from urine.
7rrRO TIL Big Shaq is a comedian and "Man's Not Hot" is a joke
KnBJ TIL that humans came very close to extinction at least 3 times, at one point possibly falling to a worldwide population of 600
wLJW6 TIL of Vasilisa Kozhina, a Russian woman who lead a guerilla regiment of women and teenagers to slaughter "hundreds of the French" in the Patriotic War of 1812. She has two streets, a village and a train station named after her, plus a stamp and a mention in War and Peace.
rRYew TIL of a coal mine fire that has been burning under Pennsylvania since the 1960s.