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TIL: That people who experience discomfort watching cringe have higher levels of empathy.

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J1DAm Today I learned that the Scottish terrier is actually one of five terrier breeds that originated in Scotland. It is also known by the more specific name "Aberdeen terrier".
WkodX TIL That consuming foods containing vitamin C as a cure for Scurvy has been repeatedly rediscovered and forgotten through history
5YErB TIL For the film Stargate, Kurt Russell was paid twice his going rate because he was the only actor at the time to have "zero unlikability" in a global poll.
x6EyB TIL australia is such a poor and backwards country that the "democracy sausages" they use to bribe people to vote, are not even given to them in buns, they put it in a regular slice of bread instead
YpxAZ TIL In 1964 Hildegarde Trabant became the fifthtieth person (and one of eight women) to be killed at the Berlin Wall. A member of the Communist Party and married to a member of the police force, she was reportedly fleeing an abusive marriage when she was killed at the age of 37.