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TIL Nearly Half of All Murdered Women Are Killed by Romantic Partners

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wjZY TIL Lurch from a The Addams Family was originally supposed to be mute, but “You rang?” was ad-libbed and the producers thought it was so funny that they wrote more lines for the character.
X0w0X TIL about a Japanese politician who was convinced that he was God incarnate, which led him to run for president from 1997 to 2013
QJZoX TIL that the old man on the cross in the music video for “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana had bowel cancer during filming and at one point his stomach burst open, leading to him being taken off set in an ambulance. The band members and the director then sat in silence for an hour.
wLalY TIL your zodiac sign is probably wrong. They were created over 3,000 years ago. The earth’s tilt has changed since then so the constellations appear in completely different positions in the sky.
R7PZl TIL about tactile illusions, including Aristotle's Illusion: if you cross your fingers and touch the tip of your nose with the tips of both crossed fingers, it feels like you're touching two noses.