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TIL Joyce Brothers became famous in the 1950’s for becoming the first woman to win the game show The $64,000 Question, despite the fact that the show’s producers did not want her to win and deliberately gave her questions perceived to be beyond her ability, which she answered correctly anyway

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Vbw8 TIL that Albania is the first and to date, the only, formally declared atheist nation in the world.
m1pAY TIL that Axl Rose once delayed a Guns N Roses concert from starting because he was watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of The Ooze.
Rlg9 TIL the Intense World Theory suggests that Autistic people do not lack empathy/emotion. They shutdown because they are overloaded by emotions due to hypersensitivity and are not able to express empathy/emotion like other people because of that. Essentially, Autistic people feel too much.
69R1W TIL, the 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone was a low pressure cyclonic storm which formed over Lake Huron in September of 1996.
looZB TIL Euronymous from a band called Mayhem found one of the band members dead after committing suicide, took photographs, allegedly cannibalized him and made necklaces with his skull; later on he was stabbed to death by another band member