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TIL about Alex and Donna Voutsinas, a now-married couple who were photographed together 15 years before they ever met during a random trip to Disney World as kids.

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WK88 TIL: Bruce Alexander, an experimental psychologist, studied addiction in lab rats, and created Rat Park – A Rat Utopian World in which rats almost always refused drugs (morphine), while rats in solitary confinement overdosed on a regular basis…
VBJO0 TIL because of constant famines during the British Raj Indian genes got starvation adapted and resistant to insulin. As a result, today Indians are four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. Over 100 million people have diabetes in India.
e6g4 TIL Marie Curie’s research papers are still highly radioactive and to access them you must sign a waiver and wear protective clothing.
P19we TIL Universal Studio's Colonial Street set has been home to Desperate Housewives, Psycho, Leave It To Beaver, The Munsters, The Hardy Boys, The Burbs, Dragnet, Delta House,Nancy Drew, The House Of the Seven Gables and more, all on the same "street". Built in the 1950, it remains in use today.
rM9w TIL at a soccer match in Brazil in 2013, a referee stabbed a player to death. He was then quartered and decapitated using a sickle and his severed head was placed on a spike on the field.