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TIL a 2009 study found that as many as 91.4% of children living in the Gaza Strip have moderate to severe PTSD

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E1K8o TIL of a simian crease, it’s a single crease that goes across the hand where as most people have two or three, very few people have a simian crease.
b9KD7 TIL that the author of the Japanese horror novel, Battle Royale, had a nightmare where a teacher commanded him and the other students to kill each other. He vividly remembers the expression on his face and his own terror in the dream, which got him to write the book.
xVgyb TIL Teddy Roosevelt drank a gallon of coffee every day
x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.
myOR TIL that Stan Lee created an adult animated series called Stripperella where the lead character was a stripper superheroine/ secret agent voiced by Pamela Anderson