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TIL lots of Japanese tourists who visit Paris are so shocked to discover “scruffy streets” and “unfriendly locals” instead of the magical city they imagined, that they experience psychological problems as a result.

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AB9g TIL of Chlorine-trifluoride, a substance so unstable it sets seemingly inflammable objects like concrete on fire. In the 1950’s, some was accidentally spilled in a warehouse and burned through a foot of concrete while simultaneously releasing a deadly cloud of gas that corroded anything it touched.
p7E4 TIL; A gambler named Yip Hon once lost US$ 2 million gambling. The casino offered him a Rolls-Royce if he could win back a million. Two days later he left with 3 million and the car.
R5we4 TIL about thanatologists, people who study death, dying, loss, and grief from multiple perspectives (medical, physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, and more).
neMM7 TIL blackcurrants are outlawed in most of the United States.
RlgQ TIL the Mississippi River ran backwards in 1812