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TIL saying curse words when you’re in pain actually reduces your suffering. The psychologist who showed this said, “I would advise people, if they hurt themselves, to swear.”

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9wyQQ TIL that Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit products, and it's all because of something called "commingled inventory."
7rGYM TIL a fire department dispatcher in told a caller to 'Deal with it yourself' while she was helping a young boy who was wounded from a drive-by shooting. The boy died and the dispatcher Matthew Sanchez was eventually fired, but won a lawsuit saying he was fired unfairly and won $25,000 as a result.
eaR4 TIL that the infinity symbol is conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1000, CIƆ or sometimes CƆ, since Romans hyperbolically used 1000 to represent very large numbers.
mx4eP TIL in the civil war, generals would deliberatley expose themselves to enemy fire to show off their courage and to lead by example. Union general Kearny rode right next to confederate lines, saying "The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded". Shortly after he was shot and killed.
16xlO TIL western actor Jack Elam, known for his damaged eye, lost the use of that eye at a Boy Scout meeting at age 11 when another scout stabbed him with a pencil.