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TIL that R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps, never included things like divorce, drug use, and abuse because he didn’t “really want to terrify kids.” He wanted his stories to be strictly fantasy and kids to know that it couldn’t really happen.

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gQXX TIL that cockroaches’ exoskeletons allow them to withstand weights up to 900 times their body weight
Kr9a TIL Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two swedish twin sisters, had a “shared psychosis” and ran into oncoming traffic on a highway while on holliday in the UK. [NSFW video]
KOpv4 TIL of the Inughuit of northwest Greenland, the world's northernmost people. When contact was made in 1818 they had been isolated for several hundred years and were completely unaware of the existence of other humans.
GA6g TIL in 1974 a Florida news reporter killed herself on camera and had already written out the script to be read after her death.
1ep8 TIL that when Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates,he demanded they increase his ransom,treated the pirates as subordinates while enslaved,earned their respect and friendship,only to tell them he would hunt them down and have them executed when freed;which he eventually did.