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Today I learned Forest Gump was based off a book.

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DJ4e TIL that as a 16 year old Ronda Rousey was a moderator of a Pokémon forum, and her username was mew182.
ADaKo TIL about the Tinkerbell effect that states “things that are thought to exist only because people believe in them.” There is also a reverse Tinkerbell effect. It pertains to everything from religion to politics.
OoMG7 TIL According to Mark Hamill, the only thing his grandfather didn’t like about Star Wars was the fact Luke Skywalker didn’t get to “marry the princess in the end”. To which Hamill joked ‘hang around for the sequel, who knows!’
ODEg TIL A prominent cause of divorce among older Japanese couples is “retired husband syndrome.” Doctors first described the syndrome when wives began showing stress symptoms when made to manage their recently retired husbands who have nothing to do but bark orders at them all day long.