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TIL that Japanese tourists often find Paris so disappointing that they get physically sick. It’s called the Paris Syndrome.

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RXm4 TIL that the Earth is surrounded by a bubble of bacteria residing in the upper atmosphere
e0XeD TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
GYW8N TIL Kansas City blatantly ignored The Prohibition. You could buy booze a few blocks down from the police station. They got away with it scot-free for all 13 years (1920 to 1933).
xVYrD TIL that the gorilla, our close ape relative, has a bite force of 1,000 pound-force that can snap any bone in the human skeleton (900 pound-force to break a femur). In comparison, the bite force of a human being is at a mere 296 pound-force.
YGQW TIL in 2000 german satire magazine “Titanic” succesfully bribed the FIFA with “A fine basket with specialties from the black forest” in exchange for their support of the German bid for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.