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TIL that Alexithymia, the inability to identify and describe your own emotions, affects roughly 10% of the general population.

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JYek8 TIL that if someone is more than $2,500 behind in child support payments, they are unable to get a US Passport
wLYoP TIL that a 95-year-old war veteran saved his abandoned village in Taiwan from demolition by covering the entire settlement with colorful painted-characters. "Rainbow Village" is now a protected cultural site and tourist destination.
1a7NX TIL in April 2013, Charlie Sheen claimed that in 2011 he had laughed so hard while watching a Chappelle's Show episode that he experienced a ruptured hernia, and was rushed to a hospital.
Rlwl TIL that Madison Square Garden has not paid property taxes since 1982 because a 10 year tax abatement was inadvertently made perpetual due to a clerical error. This has cost New York City (and saved MSG) about $200M.
GYnB7 TIL that in the mid 1800s people believed that travelling by train could cause insanity due to the high speeds.