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TIL that president Lyndon Johnson had an amphibious car and used it to scare people by driving them into a lake screaming about brake failure

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lJLa TIL that the suicidal jumpers off the Golden Gate Bridge that survived the fall reported a complete change of heart while falling “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.“
XEPRj TIL about the Golden Fantasy. The Golden fantasy is a secret expectation that all of one's problems can be solved by interaction with a perfect and all-caring relationship figure. The fantasy can be found both in psychotherapy and in ordinary life.
5xgk TIL a ‘Nutella Tax’ was proposed by France partly because Palm oil’s production has led to displacing and killing endangered Orangutans
DybY TIL Kenan Thompson is not only about to break the record for ‘Longest Serving Saturday Night Live Cast Member ever’, he is also the first cast member to be born AFTER the Premiere in 1975.
QJYQe TIL that frogs can live over a decade. The oldest known frog lived to 37.