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TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of "tobacco angina" exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.

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5Y8l9 TIL The Mad Pooper. A jogger who used to poop in public in Colorado, US. She has been wanted since July 2017 and remains unidentified. Theories about her public defecation varied from having Crohn's disease to being an exhibitionist or having a greater motive.
AdDo TIL that when Mr T was in the Army, He was told to chop down trees as a punishment. His sergeant didn’t specify how many to cut down so he chopped 70 trees in 4.5 hours before a stunned major superseded the order.
9YQ9m TIL That Godwins law is an internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"
Y1aZ TIL that scientists recently discovered giant viruses (as big as 1 μm in length), named Pandoraviruses. Because more than 93% of their genes resemble nothing known and their origin cannot be traced back to any known cellular lineage, scientists suggest the existence of a 4th domain of life
wLNZM TIL of the "Delaware loophole", lowering a corporation's tax liability by shifting income to subsidiaries located in low or no-tax states to avoid including it in income subject to taxation in the taxing state,