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TIL the Humor Research Lab thinks humor comes from “benign violations”: minor attacks on our physical, psychological, and cultural stability that we consider harmless.

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ADD07 TIL host Ray Combs’ last Family Feud episode ended in a contestant getting 0 points in Fast Money. Combs told the contestant, “Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, you made me feel like a man!” Combs then walked off during the end credits and drove home without saying good-bye to anyone.
d8LRr TIL Charles VIII, the King of France was killed after hitting his head on a doorframe
PYZME TIL: There was an estimated 2.5 million people living in the original thirteen colonies in 1776
kO86W TIL An Etruscan Shrew's heart can beat over 1200 times a minute, and it's metabolic rate is so fast it can die within 4-5 hours from starvation if it does not eat. It's also really tiny and cute.
gM9O4 TIL that during the American Civil War, Scott County of Tennessee broke away from the rest of the state to join the Union and technically did not rejoin the state until 1986.