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TIL climacophilia mean that you have a fetish for falling down stairs

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p8paO TIL Ayn Rand's pro-free market novel Atlas Shrugged was adapted into a three part film series in the 2010s. After the first two movies bombed, the producers resorted to Kickstarter to fund the third film.
nL7r TIL A female executor may be referred to as an executrix
DARY TIL in 1892, during a massive general labor strike in New Orleans, white and black workers united in an effort to gain better working conditions. Although commercial representatives tried to divide the workers by race, spreading stories of ‘negro mobs’ victimizing whites, the workers remained united
GRGJ TIL the first chairman of the 9/11 Commission was Henry Kissinger. One of the family members of the victims of 9/11 asked Kissinger if he “had any clients by the name of bin Laden.” Kissinger resigned soon after that.
nnnb TIL baseball managers sometimes yell nonsensical things at umpires (e.g “I had bad wine at an Italian restaurant”) to invigorate their team, while keeping themselves from being thrown out of the game.