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TIL neuroscientist James Fallon discovered he was a psychopath while studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior.

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b9lo4 TIL in 1998 a 23 year old man in Ohio choked to death on a live goldfish he tried to swallow on a dare. In response to if anyone would be charged for the man’s death, a police officer stated “If I dare you to jump off a bridge and you do it and you’re 23 years of age, you’re stupid.”
R7KK9 TIL During the mid-1800's painters used a pigment called "Mummy Brown" that was actually made from powdered Egyptian mummies.
1AVV TIL that the term “bug” is derived from the Middle English “bugge”, meaning beetle. Today, the word “bug” is a technical term, and describes any insect from the order Hemiptera.
Wkp7N TIL that in Colorado, the mile 420 sign on Interstate 70 got stolen so many times that it got replaced by a sign reading mile 419.99
QyYL TIL during the first stages of the Spanish-American War, USS Charleston fired 13 shots at the island of Guam as a response they sent a small ship carrying a Spanish officer who asked the USS Charleston for gun powder as they were out of it.