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TIL about Fregoli delusion a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise.

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9YKd6 TIL The native, undomesticated variety of the avocado is known as a criollo, it's small, has dark black skin, contains a large seed. It probably coevolved with extinct megafauna. The avocado tree has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America, likely beginning as early as 5,000 BCE.
l7JxN TIL about the 'battle of the farts' in 19th C Japan. '' In the battle of wind, the participants tried to knock others off their feet and caused the people to cover their nasal passages as a reaction of utter repulsion. It was indeed a battle of powerful, dangerous, and extremely noxious farts.''
E1ard TIL when taking an oath of office, Kentucky officials have to swear they've never fought a duel with deadly weapons.
ZpdE4 TIL many medical experts have cited Memento (2000) as featuring one of the most realistic & accurate depictions of anterograde amnesia. And in 2017, it became the first narrative feature film from the 2000s to be selected by the US Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
16e0W TIL a stray dog followed Dion Leonard, who was running in a week-long ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert, for 77 miles of the 155-mile race. At night the dog even started to join him in his tent. He named her Gobi, & after the race, he crowdfunded the £5K needed to bring her back to Scotland with him.