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TIL in 2011 a study found that individuals with high social anxiety had high empathy. The study found that high empathy may make socially anxious individuals more sensitive and attentive to other people’s states of mind.

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xXyg TIL that in the 1700s, “macaroni” was a slang term for a fashionable man who dressed in an outlandish and androgynous fashion. Hence the mocking verse, “…stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.”
EVgx TIL there is a plant that is able to simultaneously produce both tomatoes and potatoes, cleverly named the “Ketchup ‘n’ Fries” plant
vJMB TIL that in 1968 an American vessel was captured by North Korea. The crew was abused, and to show the world, they used puns (“We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung”) and gave the middle finger in propaganda photographs, claiming it was a “Hawaiian good luck sign”.
y7mM TIL that Rowan Atkinson suffers from stammering.
lWJa TIL That the oldest cat to ever live was a female cat called Creme Puff. She lived to a staggering 38 years and 3 months, equivalent to a human living to the age of 170 years.