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TIL there’s a medical condition called “Witzelsucht”, where a damage of the frontal lobe causes a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations

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Ra14 TiL that it more hygienic and environmentally friendly for men to piss in the sink.
v1E0j TIL the tomato is a berry. Its English name derives from the Aztec word for "fat or swelling fruit," and its Latin name literally means "wolf peach."
nj5r TIL Microsoft has a patent, for opening a new window when you click a hyperlink, that expires in 2021
VBwvD TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The constant "e", the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number