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TIL learned that the “Groundhog Day” loop could have lasted upwards to 10,000 years and as little as 10 years according to the Writer and Director Harold Ramis

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Z84VQ TIL of an early-twentieth-century novelist named Robert Walser who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed to a sanatorium and largely forgotten until it was discovered that the tiny, supposedly schizophrenia-induced markings on scraps of paper were actually a novel deciphered in the 1970's
e0GWb TIL that shrapnel is named after its inventor - General Henry Shrapnel
KOG7B TIL - the word 'cult' and 'cultist' were originally used to describe a 'faith healer'.
W7VZ9 TIL that every year around 1 million people commit suicide with attempted suicides being about 20 times more common.
nWmj7 TIL that Eiji Aonuma, deputy general manager at Nintendo and former project manager for The Legend of Zelda games, is in a brass band called The Wind Wakers