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TIL that the song Jeremy(Pearl Jam) is about Jeremy Wade Delle who walked into class and committed suicide in front of 31 people due to depression.

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OG59g TIL Albert Ellis, the person who invented CBT who had shyness around women forced himself before he invented CBT to talk to 100 women to get a date therefore utilising the technique he would later invent. He didn’t get a date but his fear of talking to women went away.
1W58 TIL that McDonalds turns away a higher percentage of applicants than Harvard.
YpWD7 TIL that humanity nearly became extinct 72000 years ago and we were down to 40 'breeding pairs'
womyP TIL that the average male will produce roughly 525 billion sperm cells over a lifetime. That's around five times the number of people who have ever lived.
e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.