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TIL of Dunbar's number which is a proposes 150 is the maximum of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships

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e0Prn TIL In the original airing of the Simpsons episode "Team Homer", there is a shot of a trophy case holding an Academy Award Homer has stolen from actor Haing S. Ngor. Ngor was murdered a month after airing, and was changed for syndication due to it implying Homer murdered Ngor to steal the statue.
awwO9 TIL that Sigmund Freud once described a victim of his friend's medical malpractice as having "wish-bleedings, caused by her hysterical longing for the affection of others." His friend Wilhelm Fliess had cut out the inner part of her nose, causing her death some years later.
nWvVY TIL that one can tell by the ears of chickens what color the eggs they lay. Chickens' ears are actually earlobes, which are flaps of skin under the ear canal that lie just behind the eyes. In most cases, hens with white earlobes also lay white eggs and hens with red earlobes produce brown eggshells.
8DQa TIL that the world record for the most consecutive push ups (i.e. nonstop) by a man was 10,507 reps in 1980 and 302 reps by a woman in 2014
b6loN TIL that garbagemen in NYC make more than 100 thousand dollars a year