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TIL the tallest building in Vermont is 11 stories tall

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KOJD9 TIL that during a plague outbreak in Romania in 1813, plague sufferers were buried alive. One undertaker squad reported "we collected 15 dead today, but only buried 14, because one of them ran away."
LkG6Z TIL that people with a defective FMO3 secrete TMA into their bodily fluids and thus attain a smell of spoiled fish, a condition designated ‘fish odour syndrome’
90rr TIL A Harvard study showed that 70% of domestic violence cases were women abusing men.
QJKnL TIL that Hugh Laurie struggles with severe clinical depression. He first became aware of it when he saw two cars collide and explode in a demolition derby and felt bored rather than excited or frightened. As he said: “boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars".
grDy8 TIL Curt Richter found that rats placed in water drowned within 15 minutes—unless they were rescued once. After experiencing a brief rescue, those same rats swam for over 60 hours, driven by the hope of being saved again. This suggests that hope alone can push us beyond our limits.