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TIL a high percentage of social media and internet trolls have dark triad personality traits which are narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy combined with schadenfreude.

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4b4a TIL that when Neil deGrasse Tyson first saw the stars come out at the planetarium at 9 years old, he thought it was a hoax. Growing up in the Bronx, he’d never seen the stars before due to light pollution.
1LMO TIL there are more bicycles in Copenhagen, Denmark, than people, five times as many bicycles as cars, and 400km of cycle lanes - not shared with cars or pedestrians - for a city of about 600,000 people.
vNw8 TIL in 2012, California became the first state to legislatively recognize the human right to water, declaring “every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water.”
GAR45 TIL that the single largest dinosaur bone ever found is a 2.5 metre (8.2ft) long femur bone belonging to an Argentinosaurus that roamed the earth about 90 million years ago. The dinosaur’s total length would of been around 35 metres (115ft) and weighed in excess of 70 tonnes.
bMyN TIL John Forbes Nash Jr., the man whose life was depicted in the film ‘A Beautiful Mind’, said the film inaccurately credited newer antipsychotic drugs to his recovery. Director Ron Howard said it was done so not to encourage schizophrenics to stop taking their medications like Nash.