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TIL when you remember things from a 3rd person view (typically your oldest memories), it’s called an Autobiographical memory

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xBgb TIL that doctors in countries with more “socialized medicine” only make slightly less annually than U.S. doctors. A major argument against social medicine is that doctors should be well-paid, and social medicine would demand major pay cuts.
J1JWV TIL that there is a warm microclimate in Cornwall, England which allows them to grow tea in the UK
xA7 TIL 95% of people are naturally immune to leprosy
RQ18 TIL, in 1979, a small town in Australia fined the United States $400 for littering after debris from NASA’s Skylab space station landed in the town. The fine was paid in 2009.
Bg7wx TIL When President Macias of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in 1979, the army couldn’t find him. He was discovered 2 weeks later by a villager, wandering through the Jungle, alone and delirious with the entire country’s foreign currency reserves in 2 suitcases.