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TIL about Jerusalem Syndrome, an acute psychotic disorder which causes some people who visit Jerusalem to slip into a psychosis and believe they’re a biblical figure

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5YLkB TIL That the animals Americans call "buffalo" are actually not buffalo at all. They are called bison. Buffalo and bison are in the same family, but not closely related.
D1jr TIL that “Overmorrow” is a word that means “the day after tomorrow” and is considered obsolete. But I think it should make a comeback.
WkEQo TIL that besides winter hibernation, there are also species of animals that go into a state of dormancy during the dry and hot summer months. This is called aestivation.
nWnjG TIL a series of US explosion tests by was performed in 1965 near Hawaii using 450t of explosives. 92,022 blocks of TNT were stacked in domes to simulate the shock effects of nuclear blasts without the radiation.
wNWE TIL that it is possible to drain the Mediterranean sea by closing the Gibraltar straight. This was the idea behind Hermann Sörgel’s Atlantropa project - the plan to create Lebensraum in a European-African supercontinent.