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TIL actor Peter Capaldi, as Doctor Who, made a video for an autistic 9-yr-old boy grieving the death of his grandmother. The boy’s father said that it had a positive effect: the boy smiled for the first time since learning of his grandmother’s death, and gained the courage to go to her funeral.

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MYm TIL that in the orignal Powerpuff Girls pilot, the accidental substance was a can of “Whoop Ass”
4X9Ob TIL that the Pinky Swear stemmed from the Yakuza and implies that if you break something as holy as a pinky promise, you have to cut off your finger as punishment.
DyZV TIL of Stanley Meyer who claimed to invent a water fuel cell which would allow cars to be powered by water. In 1998, while dining with 2 supposed investors, Meyer ran outside saying “They poisoned me” and died.
x6OZ1 TIL the city of Tyre was on an island in antiquity, but has since become contiguous to the mainland. The causeway that Alexander the Great built to conquer it in 332 BCE resulted in silt depositions that eventually formed a peninsula.
QN0d TIL Nitka Khruschev once referred to Berlin as the “testicles of the west,"claiming that,"everytime I want to make the west scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”