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TIL the towers at the startup of the ps2 represented how many games you’d played

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K9oQ TIL A 19-year-old college student who had shown no outward signs of depression killed herself while she had been participating in a company drug trial for Cymbalta - an antidepressant - 4 days after being switched to a placebo. Prior to the study, she was healthy and had no mental problems.
WVeY TIL there is a neurological disorder where an individual holds the delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
jNYQj TIL there is an annual tradition at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where after the last flight of the season leaves (after which they're stuck for a few months), the crew holds a movie night where they watch all three film adaptations of "The Thing"
N7pmM TIL Cremating a single body requires enough fuel to fill two SUV fuel tanks.
7elZ TIL the five richest women in American married into their money or were born into it.