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TIL Childhood trauma is the template for addiction—any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.

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OGnaa TIL the average gas pump handle is almost 12,000 times dirtier than the average public toilet seat.
p8p4 TIL that Nazis forged british pounds with a total value of 134,610,810. Their plan was to destabilise the British economy. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, being almost impossible to distinguish from the real currency.
rNB64 TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage
VMXv0 TIL that many early, animated Disney films were made by filming actors in real time and then tracing over their bodies frame by frame. This led to studios repurposing older animations as time went on, and helped develop modern-day roto-scoping and motion-capture technology.
oe7Y TIL If you would have bought an iPhone in 1991, part by part, it would have cost you US$3.56 million.