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TIL of “Vicarious Embarrassment”, a condition where an observer shares feelings of embarrassment or cringe when an involved party experiences such feelings.

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8aYrG TIL Kepler-62e is one of several recently discovered water world planets in the habitable zone of its parent star
0m7v TIL Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust by injecting dead typhus cells into them, allowing them to test positive for typhus despite being healthy. Germans were afraid of the highly contagious disease and refused to deport them to concentration camps.
LQya0 TIL A woman once sued herself for the wrongful death of her husband. The district court threw out the suit saying that you can't sue yourself, but the case appealed to the supreme court who ruled that you can.
kL9d TIL the Last words of the inventor of Air Conditioner on his death bed were “It’ll be a Cold Day in Hell!”
DQYbV TIL that in the early 1980's, a newspaper accidentally switched the captions for Dennis the Menace and The Far Side comics twice. While some people found it humorous, other people found the captioning to be deeply disturbing and the newspaper apologized for the errors.