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TIL There is at least 10 times as much crime on TV as there is in the real world.

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9Yek6 TIL that psychedelics increase nature relatedness and can make you go from Egoism to Ecoism.
kOYp1 TIL: that the phrase ‘devil’s advocate’ comes from a medieval job title. The ‘advocatus diaboli’ was the guy tasked with coming up with counter arguments when a priest was nominated to be blessed or canonized.
KY88a TIL that Michael Hutchence, the lead singer from INXS, most likely took his own life due to not being able to handle the side effects from anosmia anymore
R57pj TIL of East Asian age reckoning. An age counting system common in China Korea Japan and Vietnam. People are considered to be one the day they are born and on New Years Day a year is added. This creates the scenario where children born on December 31 become two-year-olds the very next day.
E4wp TIL that in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.