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TIL The walk disturbance (where a person is so worried about how they walk that they may lose balance) may appear with social anxiety, especially when passing a group of people.

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awLZ TIL an Australian journalist was kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents, but was released 24 hours later after the Iraqi insurgents used Google to verify that he’s journalist.
8anA4 TIL that the Ancient Greek "Lego" means to gather, pick up, collect and bind. But the brand name LEGO is a portmanteau of the unrelated Danish phrase “leg godt”, which means “play well”.
GYXaE TIL that in 2009 there was a race between an ISP and a carrier pidgeon to transport 4GB of data, the pidgeon won transporting the data in a little over an hour while the ISP only transferred 4% of the data.
gMb6X TIL Jackie Chan owns a house
4XW9J TIL Deinonychus, meaning "terrible claw", was the first dinosaur linked to modern birds. It had a long, talon-like claw to help disembowel prey, and it had FEATHERS!