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TIL "zoanthropy" is a psychological pathology wherein a person believes that they are a type of non-human animal. E. G. "clinical lycanthropy", the belief that they turn into a wolf.

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gr79L TIL that your height is practically the same as your arm span (the length between your fingertips with the arms extended)
VB0QZ TIL Sticky Rice was used in the Great Wall of China to make inorganic−organic composite mortar that would rival modern cement in strength.
9YDVG TIL that despite being aligned with Nazi Germany in WWII, Finnish Jews were not persecuted by the government of Finland. The Finnish Army set up the only field synagogue on the Eastern Front and Finnish Jews fought with Germans in support of the Axis Powers.
9YJp6 TIL the average human body temperature has decreased over the last century and is likely due to improved health. Temperature of men born in the early to mid-1990s is on average 1.06 F lower than that of men born in the early 1800s.
OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.