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TIL “Ped Xing” is not Chinese, but actually short for “Pedestrian Crossing”

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d81m7 TIL psychopaths are immune to the sympathetic, contagious yawn response. Additionally, researchers found that those resistant to the 'contagious yawn' were also resistant to being startled.
X6LD TIL there is a Yu Gi Oh fanfic that is 1.8 million words, longer than any published novel in history ever.
gMQxX TIL of Chevalier d'Éon - a French spy, dragoon and ambassador who had lived life both as man and woman. Their autopsy indicated they were intersex, and presented masculine in their early life for sake of inheritance.
mgEM TIL Christian Bale offered Ben Affleck one piece of advice for playing Batman: make sure you can piss in the suit. He offered this tidbit when the two met by chance in a costume shop. Both were there looking for batman costumes with/for their kids.
rNKme TIL that grandma killer whales increase the survival of the pack by letting their daughters mate while taking care of their grandoffspring