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TIL that the opposite of paranoia is called Pronoia - believing in the existence of a conspiracy to help the person.

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DJwY TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age of consent and that Clerics have fought efforts to create one. A judge refused to annul a marriage between an 8 year old girl and a 47 year old man.
R5W94 TIL that Cartoon Network used to sponsor the Orange Arrows F1 racing team back in the year 2000
kOGr4 TIL that autistic people have around 27 billion neurons on average. For the sake of comparison, a non autistic adult has around 16 billion neurons, and a chimpanzee around has 8 billion.
ee4b TIL 37% of Italians have never used the internet (as of 2012)
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