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TIL The "Florida Man" phenomena is in part due to the state's extremely transparent open records laws. Reporters have uniquely easy access to police reports, making it easy to write crime stories.

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ewe4 TIL the word “echo” comes from a Greek myth where a nymph named “Echo” was cursed by Hera to only ever be able to say something someone else had just previously said. Hence the meaning of the word.
0L71 TIL Costa Rica is the only country in the world whose constitution forbids having a national army. The previous army was disbanded in 1949 after victory in the civil war.
xxMD TIL two 16 year old girls in West Virginia murdered their best friend by stabbing her over 50 times because they got tired of being her friend.
Y7LpP TIL that "the stank face" cats make, is not only shared with horses (amongst other animals), but also has a term. The "Flehmen Response" which in simple terms can be described as them trying to get a real big deep wiff of something funky because it's interesting. Not because it's stinks.
5Y9l8 TIL that in a double-blind study, involving both new and Stradivari, expert violinists preferred new violins, voted the Strads the worst sounding and could not tell if their preferred violin was new or antique