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TIL After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage increased by 300% in the United States.

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4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
WlkA Today I Learned about Adam Rainer. At the age of 18 he was 4 feet tall. He then suffered from a pituitary tumor and grew to 7 feet 2 inches by age 32. He is the only person in history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
x6JPg TiL foo fighters have some spicy opinions
EbbX TIL shortly after Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his dorm room, he offered a friend “emails, pictures, addresses, SNS” of 4,000 Harvard users, calling them “dumb fucks” for trusting him with their data
716p TIL a young Neil deGrasse Tyson’s neighbors would call the cops on him 1 out of every 3 times he’d go up on his roof to stargaze with his telescope.