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TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2

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Z8Zvo [TIL] A group of psychiatrists watched/ studied 400 films trying to determine the most realistic psychopath; Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men] took number one. Hannibal Lector, Patrick Bateman (although entertaining), the most unrealistic.
PYrBV TIL: It's believed that Johnny Appleseed's apples were not edible. and the reason that he was welcomed in every cabin in Ohio and Indiana is that he brought with him the gift of apple cider alcohol.
6Eg68 TIL If you have a rope long enough to wrap around the entire circumference of the globe. The rope is 24,901.55 miles long. If you now want to lengthen the rope so that it can hover one foot off the ground at all points on earth. It only takes just 6.28 feet more of rope.
J85Q TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods, and stressed the importance of psychological over physical torture. The threat of inflicting pain triggered fears more damaging than the pain itself, because people often underestimated their capacity to withstand pain.
loNXa TIL: There is a specific term for a young woman's first period... Menarche.