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TIL that fish can have depression

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6EAjl TIL that around 1/3 of all land in the United Kingdom is still owned by the Aristocracy and other landed gentry
NxV6 TIL that in 2001, British author Giles Foden (Last King of Scotland) compared Eminem to Robert Browning, one of the foremost Victorian poets, and remarked that “a brief examination of ‘Stan’ reveals it to have all the depth and texture of the greatest examples of English verse.”
nWeYo TIL that American Sign Language (ASL) has drawn significantly on Plains Indigenous Sign Language (PISL) a one-time common language of Native Americans of the Central and Midwestern US.
VM8y4 TIL that in 19th century England, if your corpse wasn’t claimed in a hospital or if you died in a place where you couldn’t be identified, you might have been sold to a school or hospital so doctors could practice anatomy. Some priests even sold bodies to gravediggers who sold them to hospitals.
R7nK9 TIL the Guinness Book of World Records has vehemently refused to validate any attempt at the world record for the longest time spent awake, believing that it's dangerous to human health. The current record is 264 hours or around 11 days, which was set by a high school student as a science project