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TIL about Semantic Satiation, where if you repeat a word or a phrase or listen to it for too long, it suddenly loses its meaning and doesn't make sense anymore.

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Raea TIL Uganda has an Anti-Human Sacrifice Taskforce due to the amount of people being killed by witch-doctors
kO8we TIL in the 1990s, the Galapagos Conservancy launched Project Isabela, an all out war against 250,000 goats in the Galapagos Islands to save the dwindling population of Galapagos tortoises, and involved snipers picking goats off from helicopters. It ended up restoring the population of the tortoises.
AJyw TIL Drawn Together is the only show ever to have a “Very Mature” rating.
QJxQd TIL of Israel Keyes, a serial killer who had no preferred victim type and never killed in the same area twice. For one murder, he flew to Chicago and rented a car to get to Vermont, then used a murder kit he’d hidden two years earlier. When shopping, he kept his phone off and only paid in cash.
JYyb1 TIL that Peter the Great of Russia loved partying, so much so, that he started a club called The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters. It started as a group of 80-200 men, and grew to more than 1,500 men as the parties got bigger and bigger. They got in trouble for mocking the Church.