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TIL that Sigmund Freud's first research was looking for the existence of testes in eels

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4XRRX TIL that Nicholas Cage has a Goth Son who sang in a Black Metal band and invented a genre called "Ghost Metal" in which he incorporates ancient instruments, like the Bouzouki, to invoke a "ghostly feeling".
4XDDX TIL- Ghyslain Raza, the "Star Wars Kid", had his video uploaded without permission. He left school due to depression, taking final exams in a psych unit, and sued the families of the uploaders. He later got his HS diploma, went to law school, and did a media tour speaking out against cyber-bullying.
4XDoo TIL In 2002, the FBI was forced to pay environmental activist Judi Bari $4 million dollars after they found her critically injured from a car bomb during an assassination attempt and then immediately arrested her by falsely claiming she had put the bomb inside her own car.
K4lQ TIL one of the most viewed Korean programs of all time is called “Finding Dispersed Families”, where loved ones that were separated after the Korean War found each other through television
d5M7 TIL that, with some anxious thoughts, you can “bore yourself calm” by repeating them in front of a mirror until they lose power.