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TIL Fecal smearing, or scatolia, occurs most frequently among individuals with developmental delays or post-traumatic stress. Psychological reasons include a sense of ownership over one’s actions and ritual that provides comfort

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Y9Xv TIL that the weird white spots you see when you look up at the blue sky are actually white blood cells moving through blood vessels in your retina.
kJ4y4 TIL when Stalin mispronounced a word while giving a speech, all subsequent speakers felt obliged to repeat the mistaken pronunciation in order to avoid the perception that they were correcting him.
em0b TIL Baghdad, considered to be currently among the least hospitable places to live on earth, was once the cultural and scholarship center of the world during the Islamic Golden Age.
nB8d TIL Kenneth Dover, one of the 20th century’s top classical scholars, admitted in his autobiography to engineering the suicide of a colleague who bothered him
89JP TIL that our modern idea of headphone plugs is >130yrs old. It was invented in 1878, and is thus possibly the oldest electrical connector standard still in use today!