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TIL Candle in the Wind is about Marilyn Monroe.

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0dkBp TIL The idea of the four humours also applied to emotions in the form of the four temperaments. One's temperament was based on the physical amounts of humours with the excesses causing one to be sanguine, choleric, melancholic, or phlegmatic. A healthy mind came from balanced humours.
oYwY TIL In Cambridge, Canada you can pay your parking tickets by giving toys of equal value to charity
mx90E TIL I learned that in 2002, two airplanes collided in mid-air killing everyone aboard. Two years later, the air traffic controller was murdered as revenge.
4XjWa TIL mustard gas, which was used heavily during World War I, is not just a skin irritant but damages DNA by corrupting molecules in the strand. If the victim survives, the DNA damage can lead to the development of cancer.
b997a TIL that a family lived in the Siberian wilderness for over 40 years without human contact.