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TIL that humans can maintain only around 150 stable relationships, a concept known as 'Dunbar’s Number'. This theory, proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, suggests that cognitive limitations restrict the number of meaningful social connections we can sustain.

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BrE1r TIL in Washinton State in 1995 an irate deer hunter shot down a helicopter with an arrow.
grar4 TIL: Cyrus the great’s cylinder is the first recognized charter for human rights.
xpPo TIL That for about 5 months in 2008 it was 100% legal to abandon your teenage child by bringing them to a hospital and driving off. During this period over 35 teenagers were abandoned by their parents.
wDBP TIL there is an American restaurant chain, “Der Wienerschnitzel”, that contains three German language errors in its name. The gender is incorrect, the restaurant serves hot dogs (not Wiener schnitzel), and a missing space implies that residents of Vienna have been used as an ingredient.
VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.