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TIL about Gerner's Mean World Syndrome- the more negative news/shows/etc people expose themselves to, the more dangerous they think they world is (becoming less and less accurate in their assessment)

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0dN0y TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure.
X0ZRk TIL There’s still king of the Zulu
ynVl TIL In 2011, The Canadian version of the game show Cash Cab hit and killed a pedestrian in Vancouver
GAZZG TIL Puffins Spend Almost All Their Time at Sea in the Winter
J18L1 TIL in 1815 B.C. it took about a year for Sumerian scribes to learn how to multiply. They also signed and dated their homework.