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TIL Déjà vu can be a chronic medical condition. Patients have problems watching TV because everything feels like a rerun and some refuse to see a doctor because they feel like they already have.

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4kg0N TIL May 2 1922 Gen. Montgomery led a convoy to Macroom Castle, Cork where he ordered the IRA to surrender 4 captives or they would raze the town. In response, the Commander told him to leave “within 10 minutes”. Monty then looked up to see he had been quietly surrounded by Irish Volunteers. He fled.
KONR4 TIL If you were to print a book writing out a Googolplex (10 to the power of a Googol(10 to the power of 100)) with each book having 400 pages and a mass of 100 grams (3.52oz) the amount of books required would have a mass greater then the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined.
woeLY TIL US government is putting together a team to disclose existence of "non-human intelligence" to the public. The team will include 1 current or former foreign service official, 1 scientist or engineer, 1 economist, 1 professional historian and 1 sociologist.
0dv55 TIL in a 1977 Speech in Warsaw, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's translator mistranslated several remarks, stating that President Carter had abandonded the U.S never to return, and that he wished to get to know the Polish people 'carnally'.
mxvDY TIL that Catcher in the Rye isn't available in an ebook form because J.D. Salinger refused to allow adaptations to the book and even after his death, his agents continue to uphold his wishes.