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TIL a Dutch city known as Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110 birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras.

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eA55 TIL Dyslexia is also auditory, not just visual.
Me8ka TIL about the Black Hole Era, a period of time in the future where the universe will spend the vast majority of it's overall life shuttered in absolute darkness with all the stars in the night sky having died out and space itself dominated by nothing but super massive black holes for eons upon eons
XEJZR TIL that fudge was popularized by rebellious women in the early days of women being able to attend college. They had strict curfews so they would rebel by holding late night snack parties in their dorms and secretly cooking fudge over gas lamps. It became a cliche that women's education = fudge.
LkmBV TIL an immune disease named Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is suspected of being an underlying cause of most of the historical accounts of demonic possession
kO54 TIL the CIA tested LSD on citizens in the USA and Canada unbeknownst to them. Is this common knowledge now? (I am Australian, and would love to know more)