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TIL that Alaska is not only the most northern and western state in the US, but also the most eastern state due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° longitude line

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wo6mW TIL in 1854, Dr. Jules Baillarger depicted a mental illness expressed by switches between mania and depression. He named it dual-form insanity. Dr. Jean Falret described the same illness but named it circular insanity. They spent their lives disputing who first conceptualized it.
5VWjB TIL that Princess Liu Chuyu of the song dynasty complained to her brother that it wasn’t fair that he had concubines while she only had a husband. He agreed and gave her a harem of 30 men.
YpmWA TIL the painting "The Scream" was painted with a red sky accurately depicting the Norwegian sky at the time caused by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.
5YNR9 TIL there's a scale to rate how understandable written communication is, called the Flesch readability score. Corporate jargon ranks low on this scale.
QJBVk TIL That in France, the French title for Meet the Parents was “My Father-in-Law and Me” so Meet the Spartans is called Spartatouille