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Today I learned there's a hybrid of both introverted and extroverted personality elements.. and it is Not what you think!

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57D8 TIL there was an actual federal court case titled “UNITED STATES v. APPROXIMATELY 64,695 POUNDS OF SHARK FINS”
W71l4 TIL that for centuries, British people considered cucumbers too vile to be eaten by humans. But their opinion changed when Queen Victoria’s family started eating them. Cucumbers became really popular. A British engineer even went as far as inventing a glass tube which straightened curvy cucumbers.
j7nn TIL, according to a report in Britain’s BMJ medical journal, nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins.
yQVQa TIL that nomadic families owning less than 100 animals in Mongolia are considered to live in poverty
16DBr TIL of Phryne(meaning "toad") an ancient greek escort who became obscenely rich. After Alexander the Great destroyed her native Thebes she offered to rebuild the city walls at her own expense under one stipulation: a sign on the wall reading "Destroyed by Alexander-rebuild by Phryne the courtesan"