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TIL that Denmark - supposedly the happiest country in the world - is Europe’s second-largest consumer of anti-depressants.

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VMWrZ TIL there is a sexual orientation called "objectum sexuality" (OS) where individuals experience emotional, romantic, and/or sexual feelings towards inanimate objects. OS individuals also possess significantly higher rates of diagnosed autism and synaesthesia
N7eVe TIL in 1996 Tonya Harding, by then already a scandalous figure from the 1994 skating incidents, gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed at a bar in Portland, and was credited with saving her life.
Z8mNp TIL about Hanns Scharff, the most successful German Interrogator in WW2. He would not use torture, but rather walk with prisoners in the nearby woods and treat them like a friend. Through the desire to speak to anyone, the prisoners would say small parts of important Info.
QNyb6 TIL that a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, but she kept testing positive for alcohol, which prevented her from getting a transplant, despite swearing that she hadn’t been drinking. The doctors were confused, and it later turned out that her body produced its own alcohol.
ZpMvv TIL that in 1879, before an audience of American writers and artists in Paris, Mark Twain gave a speech called "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" about the advantages and dangers of masturbation. It wouldn't be printed until 1943.