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TIL about Misokinesia the hatred of fidgeting

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OooML TIL in 1996 and 1997, Emily Rosa, 9, tested 21 therapeutic touch practitioners whether their claims to detect "human energy fields" were true. After finding they were right only 44% of the time, she published the results on 1998, becoming the youngest person to have a research paper published.
R74R1 TIL snails are responsible for more than 200,000 human deaths a year.
nenLb TIL that out of all 77 restaurants that appeared on Kitchen Nightmares (US), only 16 remain open as of 2019. The latest restaurant to close was La Galleria 33 in November 2018.
v1ml8 TIL that French billionaire Pierre Bernard Papillaud demanded that the city of Weeds in California give up its water source, Beaughan Spring, to his bottled water company Christaline.
KkvQ TIL: To prevent voyeurism, cellphones purchased in Japan can’t disable the camera’s shutter sound.