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TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen

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oBy7R TIL there's a fetish term and concept for people who are aroused by wearing clothing intended for their own gender (men wearing men's clothes, or women wearing women's clothing)
69oe8 TIL about 70,000 years ago Scholz's Star passed through the Oort Cloud affecting the orbits of the planets in our solar system.
yVVy8 TIL in 2019 a woman woke up alone in an Air Canada plane after sleeping through the landing, hours after it had deplaned. She had to use a flashlight she found in the cockpit to signal for help.
Z11p TIL that Amy Van Dyken, a 6-times Olympic gold medalist swimmer, has been an asthmatic her whole life, proving that children with asthma can grow to be olympic-level athletes!
xMpk TIL a group of Scientists have discovered that cheese contains a protein that the human body recognizes in a fashion similar to addictive drugs, called “casomorphins,” or “casein-derived morphine-like compounds,” prompting one researcher to refer to cheese as “dairy crack.”