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TIL of Stendhal syndrome which is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.

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m1EBp TIL about The Musalman, the world's only newspaper which is entirely written by hand instead of being typed. This Chennai-based Urdu-language newspaper has been circulated since 1927 and is 4 pages long.
Ld7Z TIL in 2003 Norway became the first country to impose a gender quota. The law stated that at least 40 percent of a company’s board must be female or else it would be shut down.
grEdy TIL learned that Lord Byron's daughter Ada was the first true computer programmer.
eppQD TIL that the first version of rayon was so inflammable that it got nicknamed "mother-in-law silk."
nW8Y7 TIL that The Ships of Christopher Columbus Were Sleek, Fast—and Cramped with the smallest the nina only being 50 feet long.