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TIL I am a superhuman because I don't molest kids.
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TIL that Pokemon is the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, beating out Star Wars by over $13 billion.
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TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research
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TIL about Third Man Factor (or Sydrome). A phenomenon where explorers, or people in a survival situation, see and or feel a person/ presence that gives them guidance and support at a critical moment in their survival.
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TIL That when the physicist Murray Gell-Man was applying for PhD programs, he was denied from both Princeton and Harvard. Forced to attend his backup choice of MIT, he was so distraught that he considered suicide.
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TIL that in Japanese, 緑 (green) was taught to be a shade of 青 (blue) until the occupation of Japan in WW2. Japanese people still regularly use 青 to describe traffic lights and unripe fruit