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TIL that when people cry at otherwise innocuous events, (Like finding out Swans can be gay) it is actually called Emotional Dysregulation.

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7M TIL that only one character on the Simpsons 26 season series has ever had five fingers. That character is God.
pYeVN TIL that between the 1920s to 1970s, many shoe shops were fitted with x-ray machines, or shoe-fitting flouroscopes, that enabled the customer to observe how well their new shoes fit
WdwA TIL that a sandwich has ~16x the energy density of a Lithium-Ion battery.
WkbGL TIL fire in Sweden turns cans of rotten fish into exploding missiles
L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”