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TIL Acetaminaphen not only reduces pain, but reduces empathy for pain as well.

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MRJ0 TIL there is a term for “cousin killing,” just not a single one because Latin has distinct words for paternal and maternal cousins. They would be “patruelicide” and “sobrinicide” respectively.
4kN0N TIL that not all teachers keep kids safe at school, boy was mocked by teacher online
8eP5L TIL there is a CITY (was a town) in Texas named “Cut and Shoot”.
p8oEe TIL Pete Townshend of The Who was caught in a wide ranging pedophilia ring and admitted to paying for a child porn site. He was given a slap on the wrist.
oR0mK TIL That in 1883, Mexican astronomer José Bonilla photographed more than 400 mysterious objects crossing the Sun over two days. Modern astrophysicists now believe he may have captured fragments of a massive comet that narrowly missed Earth