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TIL about Misokinesia the hatred of fidgeting

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wLa0M TIL the names Brendan (Irish) and Brenda (Norse) have totally different origins and just happen to be spelled similarly and gendered
5YMrR Today I learned about Lord Goddard, a former Lord Chief Justice of England. His clerk claimed that he ejaculated whilst passing a death sentence on such a regular basis, that a fresh pair of trousers had to be brought to court on those occasions.
6EjxW TIL that while Kool Aid usually gets used when referring to the Jonestown Massacre, (drink the Kool Aid) investigators actually found boxes of grape Flavor Aid, a generic version of the drink.
wkYW TIL that a usually reserved Mr. Rogers found Eddie Murphy’s parody of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, titled Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood, both hilarious and touching.
6kVY TIL about the “Demon Core’, a 6.2 kg subcritical mass of plutonium that briefly went critical during two separate experiments, killing two members of the Manhattan Project