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TIL that gaslighting is the act of deliberately driving someone crazy by altering the environment and denying their sense of reality

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KERB TIL Roald Dahl was so disappointed with the original Willy Wonka film that he refused any more adaptations during his lifetime
YnP TIL that Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
LQLer TIL that in 1958, author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but was forced by the communist party to abstain form accepting the award
xVQXw TIL: The term coevolution is used to describe cases where two (or more) species reciprocally affect each other's evolution.
G8PQ TIL while wrestler Hulk Hogan was traveling with tag team duo, the Wild Samoans, whose gimmick was to never speak in public, police found an unregistered handgun in Hogan’s car. Hogan begged the Samoans to come to his defense. The Samoans refused to break character and all three men went to jail.