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TIL the brain has 2 internal clocks and people with Parkinson’s disease have trouble telling the passage of time.

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xVDV7 TIL around 100 firefighters are convicted of arson in the US every year
NXXOP TIL: The Superman curse refers to a series of supposedly related misfortunes that have plagued creative people involved in adaptations of the DC Comics character Superman in various media, particularly actors who have played the role of Superman on film and television.
gMv1b TIL that Chicago was called "Swedens second biggest city" in the beginning of the 20th century, having the largest swedishborn population in the world after Stockholm.
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
9YZgB TIL Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery in the American south by mailing himself to freedom. He had friends pack him into a small box, and ship him as cargo from Richmond to Philadelphia. He survived, and went on to work as a magician