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TIL that Ursula the Sea-Witch from the Disney film ‘The Little Mermaid’ was inspired by a drag queen named Divine.

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kJrBm TIL about Stendhal Syndrome. It is caused by looking at beautiful art. It can cause things like rapid heart beating, dizziness, hallucinations.
1a9Rr TIL in 1987, an engineer used a new computer program “rwall” to send a message to his university server. Instead, the program broadcasted the message to every user on the internet—including the Pentagon.
OGYV4 TIL of the Oriflamme. It was the battle standard of the King of France during the Middle Ages. When raised during battle, no prisoners were to be taken until it was lowered
kOQQm TIL Lois Duncan the author of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and many other teen horror and suspense novels in the 70's and 80's had a teenage daughter that became a victim of an unsolved murder in 1989. Duncan essentially stopped writing in her genre and the murder is still unsolved today.
0wdJA TIL That Hydrogen Peroxide, commonly used to treat wounds, can cause scarring and inhibit wound healing.