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TIL that hypochondria is the name of an actual anxiety disorder, like OCD, that has been commonly misused by the public.

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yQ6X8 TIL that Fermilab used to clean its particle accelerators with a ferret named Felicia, who would run through the tubes with cleaning supplies attached and be rewarded with hamburger meat
pDOp TIL that needing to drink 8 glasses of water a day, and that coffee dehydrates you are both disproven myths.
eRXD TIL that the bunker where Hitler committed suicide has been converted into a playground.
kOv5g TIL about the worst space related disaster in history. In 1994 China launched an untested rocket which immediately crashed into a nearby village, destroying it--killing hundreds. Officially only 6 died.
PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”