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TIL that a 2014 study showed that many human subjects preferred to give themselves a mild electric shock rather than being left alone with their own thoughts

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OGPr7 TIL that the graphic sex scenes in the controversial 'Pagan Poetry' music video were performed and filmed by Björk herself.
JYMLk TIL nonchalant, disheveled, nonplussed, disconsolate, and nonsensical are examples of unpaired words: words that appear to be formed by a prefix and an existing word, but aren't. Chalant, heveled, plussed, consolate, and sensical are not recognized as English words.
Z8OmR TIL Around one in four Labradors apparently have a gene variant that leaves them feeling constantly hungry with no 'off-switch' when they're full.
JYE1 TIL that the proper way to use a bobby pin is with the ridges facing down - flat side up.
XEKjX TIL: In 1665, King Charles II said the southern border of Virginia colony must stretch to the Pacific! In the end it didn't, but over years a resulting survey line (along 36°30′ N.Lat.) became part of 6 state borders (VA, NC, KY, TN, OK, TX). (The line was also a slave/free states divider out West.)