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TIL that the term Dark triad - a term used to describe three negative personality traits -was coined back in 2002 by the Canadian psychologists Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams.

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vMK7 TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.
rN56x TIL that the Dragon Ball Z villain Frieza, a galactic tyrant who destroys all life on planets so he can resell them at a profit, was inspired by real estate speculators during the Japanese asset price bubble in the 1980s. Series author Akira Toriyama called them "the worst kind of people".
EgK07 TIL Men and women have the same number of ribs. Both typically have 24 ribs, arranged in 12 pairs. Despite the common misconception stemming from the biblical story of Adam and Eve, there is no anatomical difference in the number of ribs between the sexes.
4kv6w TIL there was an award-winning racehorse named Artax after the horse Artax in the movie "The Never Ending Story"
VBW6B TIL that before the Civil War there were 8,000 different kinds of money in circulation in the US - the same banknote had different value depending on location