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TIL of the Cotard's syndrome in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, denies their own existence, the existence of a certain body part, or the existence of a portion of their body.

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pj8A TIL A California teenager traded up an old phone on Craigslist for different items until he eventually acquired a Porsche
X0OPE TIL about the Kyujo Incident that occurred on Aug 14, 1945 where several Japanese officers occupied the Japanese Imperial Palace in an attempted coup of the Emperor to prevent him from surrendering to the Allies. They murdered several people and when their plot failed, they committed suicide.
pL4p TIL in one episode of The Golden Girls, Betty says “What if there’s only one of us left?” Ironically she’s the last surviving Golden Girl and the girls sit in the order of who dies first.
W70Dd TIL that during ww2 the Japanese had bombed the also un-contacted cousins of the Sentinelese people, the Jarawa people live nearby and they only established voluntary contact with outsiders in the 1990’s.
dD5N8 TIL that Roller Coasters have their origins in 1700s Russia with 'Russian Mountains' which used gravity to rapidly propel sledders over several hills of ice during the winter.