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TIL Steve Harvey once gave a winning Family Feud contestant an additional $25k of his own money after later finding out the contestant was terminally ill and doing everything he could to support his family

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R7n79 TIL of Stendhal syndrome which is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.
Z8PkD Til: There used to be real human remains in Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride
MXWm TIL A theoretical spacecraft was designed to travel 92% the speed of light, granting humans the ability to travel to different star systems within their lifetimes.
J1v9B TIL about the Buzkashi; the national sport of Afghanistan, which includes horseback riding with a dead goat, and can last for several days.
Z8xlY TIL all of the drawings in Grey's Anatomy are of real people -- they were nameless and poor, coming out of the hospital mortuary or out of a workhouse where they had died. The illustrator (Henry Carter) represented them with reverence because he saw the human body as the image of God.