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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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E1gMP TIL The 1996 film "Crash" (about people who sexually fetishize car crashes) was proposed for a ban in the UK. A lawyer, a psychologist, and 11 disabled people watched the film, and found no basis for a ban. The disabled people in particular saw no offense in its portrayal of disability.
ZpmnQ TIL that a production flaw meant CD's manufactured by the UK branch of Philips and Dupont Optical (PDO) between 1988 and 1993 would be able to react with their own paper booklets and be rendered unreadable.
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.
QJybd TIL a group of US soldiers used to kill teenagers in the Afghanistan for fun. Pictures can be seen of them smiling with their "trophy" just like people used to do with wild animal killings
X0w0r TIL while sailing from Tahiti to San Diego, Tami Oldham Ashford & her fiancé's boat temporarily capsized when they got caught in a hurricane. Tami got knocked out & woke up 27 hours later with her fiancé missing. Over the next 41 days, she used a sextant & a watch to navigate 1.5K miles to Hawaii.