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TIL a porcupine cannot be raped

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AAyx TIL Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Facebook called his first few thousand users as “dumb f****” for trusting him with their personal data.
ANK57 TIL that King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia is the only ruling monarch in the world to be fluent in Czech.
WMMo TIL that at 11 a.m. each November 11th at the Canadian War Museum, the sun shines through the window of the Museum’s Memorial Hall and illuminates the only artifact in that space: the headstone of Canada’s Unknown Soldier.
R7Qjl TIL that a Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found in 1927 that waiters remembered orders only as long as the order was in the process of being served. Unfinished work continues to exert an influence, even when we try to move on to other things. This phenomenon was called The Zeigarnik Effect.
dDnRQ TIL in the months after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, calls to suicide prevention lines in the Seattle area surged and suicides actually went down. Local media coverage was closely tied to messages about suicide prevention and mental health treatment.