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TIL Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark. The light is just too weak for human eyes to detect

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JYn9B TIL in the month after 13 Reasons why's release suicide rates increased 28.9% for 10-17 year olds.
5YZ4Q TIL that Sir Richard Whittington (Medieval Mayor of London, and inspiration for the Dick Whittington childrens stories) founded a charity upon his death in 1423. 600 years later, the charity is still operational, and continues to provide housing to the elderly and impoverished
RyB7 TIL: “Angels with Filthy Souls”, the Gangster Movie Kevin is watching in Home Alone is actually an 80-second film shot entirely for one brief scene, using techniques and black-and-white negative film stock of movies from the 1940s.
YJW7 TIL that at the 1945 Potsdam Conference, Churchill, Truman & Stalin couldn’t agree on who should enter the door to the meeting room first. After much debate, they settled on an agreeable plan: They entered the room at precisely the same time using 3 separate doors
GYXoj TIL Hercules/Heracles means "the glory of Hera," Alcides is the hero's real name. He was renamed to mollify Hera when she discovered Zeus had him with another woman.