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TIL Repetition compulsion is a psychological phenomenon in which a person repeats a traumatic event or its circumstances over and over again. This includes reenacting the event or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to happen again

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e05Qn TIL the term "Playboy" was initially popularized by the life of Harry Kendall Thaw, a millionaire sociopath and mentally ill railroad heir who spent money lavishly to fund his obsessive partying, drug addiction, abusive behavior (including murder), and gratification of sexual appetites.
8ora TIL McDonald’s “Super Sizing” started as a Jurassic Park merchandising tie-in.
wxJ8 TIL that the English word “taboo” comes from the Polynesian word “tapu”, which means too sacred to touch and therefore off limits
6EblX TIL The longest English word takes three and a half hours to pronounce
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