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TIL of the Jevons paradox, which states that increasing efficiency in resource usage causes higher demand - sometimes increasing usage instead of reducing it.

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WejN TIL there is a Jellyfish whose neurotoxin “induces an overwhelming feeling of impending doom”
OoLE6 TIL The Allies worked with the Serbians and Yugoslav partisans to systematically execute Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing Axis nations. Termed “Bleiburg Massacre” and later changed to “repatriation”
W7Q4o TIL more than 30 million viewers watched Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital in 1981, a soap opera record that still stands today
wLE6P TIL that the producers of Jim Carrey's The Grinch (2000) hired a CIA operative who instructed agents on how to endure extreme torture techniques to coach Carrey on how to remain calm while they applied his makeup (which took 8 hours the first time).
rRbxw TIL about "whitecapping" a violent lawless movement in the 19th and 20th centuries to enforce community standards, appropriate behavior, and traditional rights.