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TIL that more than 6% of Americans with synesthesia (who see letters as specific colors) have letter/color associations that match a specific Fisher-Price alphabet magnet set

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mY6o TIL that the Internet weighs the same as a strawberry: The weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any one moment is equivalent to 50 grams
X0wk6 TIL that there is only one validated living man born before 1913, and only eight born before 1914.
7r0rr TIL about 'holy anorexia' - Medieval Catholic saints "refused food, but drank the pus from the sores of the sick. Angela of Foligno is reported to have said it was as "sweet as the Eucharist", and also to have eaten the scabs and lice from those same patients"
LG1Q TIL: When Marianne Reddick died, her children announced the news by exulting “ding dong the witch is dead” and then chronicled her child abuse in the most scathing obituary ever printed.
OoEdY TIL 3 Mile Island contained nearly all of its radioactive material and subjected surrounding residents to the amount of radiation equivalent to a half a chest xray. No additional deaths are implicated.