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Today I learned about Parasocial Relationships, where one person pours emotions and effort into the relationship and the other doesn't know the first exists

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P184n TIL of the world's oldest known song: The Hurrian Hymn (written 1400 BCE)
BAab TIL that Australian aborigines have stories that tell of events from the last glacial maximum (21,000 years ago) when Australia and Indonesia were connected by a vast land bridge. These stories are some of the oldest extant repositories of human knowledge.
wL8mo TIL there has been so much human feces in the San Francisco BART escalators that it causes them to stop working
OBQ6 TIL There is a park that turns into a lake.
PYQ9e TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"