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TIL of the Goldwater Rule, which keeps psychiatrists from commenting on public figures.

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ay19 TIL Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into a colleague’s office after work to play.
Y77BZ TIL that some spiders can survive drowning by going into a coma.
gM7gA TIL that there is an English word equivalent to the German word: Shadenfreude: Epicaricacy, which means to derive pleasure from another's misfortune.