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TIL in a study of 1,000s, the score for "dark triad" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) was subtracted from "light triad" (Kantianism, Faith in Humanity, Humanism) to an avg. balance of 1.3, suggesting the avg. human tends to the light more than the dark.

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BdMb TIL Mongol leader Genghis Khan never allowed anyone to paint his portrait, sculpt his image or engrave his likeness on a coin. The first images of him appeared after his death.
vPXox TIL of Ye's Optical Lattice Clock. It loses one second every 15 billion years, making it the world's most accurate clock.
ZpWkQ TIL the Humor Research Lab thinks humor comes from “benign violations”: minor attacks on our physical, psychological, and cultural stability that we consider harmless.
BrD4W TIL in Albania, a burrnesha, or sworn virgin, is a woman who takes an vow of chastity and to appear as a man to then be given many of the rights of men including inheriting their family's wealth.
lovm7 TIL that last year a 70-year-old butcher in the south of England who became locked in his walk-in freezer, used a 1.5kg roll of black pudding to escape from the -20 degree celsius temperatures by using it as a battering ram