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TIL Bipolar disorder may have been a climatic adaptation for humans to survive short summers (manic episodes for high productivity) and long winters (depression to slow metabolism).

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L45v TIL Guy Fieri officiated 101 same-sex marriages in Florida
xV1lw TIL that Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle attended a dinner party held by an editor looking for content. They each promised to contribute to his magazine. The results of that evening? The Picture of Dorian Gray and the second, franchise-cementing Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four.
pYPKp TIL, at age 39, that staplers have different settings to fold the staples either inwards or outwards
gr0n8 TIL bees can recognize human faces. Despite their tiny brains, bees can remember and recognize human faces using a similar process to humans, which helps them identify friends and foes.
GY6W1 TIL they originally conceived Beavis and Butt-head Do America as a live action movie, with David Spade and Adam Sandler in mind to play the title characters.