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TIL, having trouble getting out of bed in the morning is indicative of an underlying medical condition called dysania.

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8nw8 TIL the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese prostitute called Ching Shih. She commanded over 1,800 ships and up to 200,000 pirates. She was one of the few pirates to actually retire.
7XZO TIL posthumous marriage is legal in France, if one fiancé(e) dies before the wedding. “I do” is replaced with “I did”, and “until death do us part” is omitted.
yQdBa TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was a genius who had no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. But his notebooks were 7,200 pages crammed with notes and scribbles including math calculations, sketches of animals, weapons of war, and studies for paintings
Bg0mx TIL that 26 bishops/archbishops of the Church of England have an automatic right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, the upper house of the UK parliament
AvVa TIL that the town of Larkhall, Scotland, hates the colour green so strongly that their Subway is painted black instead