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TIL a patient was diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder triggered by excessive internet role play. Doctors concluded that cyberspace's anonymous interactivity may offer the possibility to explore one's identity while also putting at risk identity coherence.

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69eWm TIL “Low Sodium Salt” exists, and it could prevent millions of deaths.
nk0r TIL that today is World Standards Day. Except in the US, which celebrates it on 23 October.
rRPB1 TIL that German chemist Friedrich Wöhler was the first person to synthesize an organic compound in 1828 by accidentally crystalizing urea. This refuted a widespread belief (vitalism) that organic compounds contained a mysterious, soul-like "vital spark" and could never be synthesized.
4k9Gg TIL Mussolini’s son in law, Count Ciano, was purged from the cabinet in 1943 when he was implicated in a plot to replace his father. Despite being offered many other safer positions away from Italy as a concession to his familial ties, Ciano chose the ambassadorship to the Holy See.
ElJo TIL when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, the Cambodian king sent a beautiful woman who convinced the Vietnamese commander to withdraw. The Vietnamese then sent a famous general, who also withdrew after meeting the same woman.