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TIL In Pennsylvania (USA), you can be on the hook for your parents’ debt without your knowledge or consent, and it’s completely legal

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MeWrK TIL of Grigory Perelman, the mathematician who solved one of the most difficult math problems ever conceived and turned down multiple awards, including a $1 million dollar prize. When questioned by one persistent journalist, he said “you are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”
jwvv TIL the whole “mdma makes holes in your brain” thing is a complete myth, brought into existence by anti-drug campaigns.
GAJog TIL Moons can have moons and they're called "moonmoons"
LkZPP TIL that Laika (The first dog in space), did not die peacefully to lack of oxygen like the Russians said. Decades later, it was revealed that instead she died in panic thanks to a heat shield malfunction a couple of hours after launch.
dDww9 TIL before 9/11, New York's deadliest disaster was an excursion steamboat sinking in 1904 with 1,021 deaths and 431 survivors (most could not swim at the time).