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TIL about alexithymia, a somewhat common but unstudied condition in which a person is unable to interpret their own emotions despite being able to function normally in every other way

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Er6X TIL-King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.
x6V7o TIL that the first tanks carried two pigeons for sending messages. The pigeons were thrown from dedicated hatches in the armor with short messages attached to them and flew back to headquarters.
E1dJW TIL that Nazi leader Hermann Göring once claimed "No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer.". This would later come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany and citizens began to call him "Meyer".
M5jA TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.
ynlv TIL that the fire hydrant is believed to have been invented by an engineer named Frederick Graff, but this can’t be verified because the patent was destroyed in a fire at the patent office in 1836.