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TIL that Third Man Syndrome is a phenomenon where people in extreme situations perceive an unseen presence offering advice and encouragement, acting as a psychological support mechanism during intense stress.

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awJEM TIL that fireworks are totally illegal in Florida, but are sold to ordinary people in huge quantities via hundreds of stores across the state to anyone who signs a waiver saying they're for agricultural use to scare birds away from crops.
JaBv TIL If you put a big plastic sheet or a white sheet on your grass in the garden on a nice day, leave it for a few hours and then run a magnet over it, you can often find specks just fallen down from outer space
E17yW TIL that the International Space Station Has Better Internet Than Most of Us After Its Latest Upgrade. With its new connection, the ISS now has a 600 megabit-per-second (Mbps) connection.
Z8AmQ TIL Ernst Röhm was a close friend of Hitler, a top Nazi leader, and a homosexual. Hitler was aware of Röhm's homosexuality. They were so close they addressed each other as du (German familiar form of "you"). No other top Nazi leader enjoyed that privilege.
WEw4 TIL A 16-year-old Xhosa girl had a vision that to defeat the British soldiers the tribe should kill all the cattle and destroy the crops. Tens of thousands died in the resulting famine