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TIL about 'moral luck'. If two random drivers accidentally run a red light, but only one hits a person, we tend to think the latter is more guilty

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NvYE TIL that Turk Edwards, an NFL player on the Washington Redskins, suffered a career ending injury during a coin toss.
GY8x4 TIL that when Dune (1984) was originally released in theaters, some locations gave out “cheat sheets” for people confused with the terminology of the Dune universe.
ZpX0Y TIL that Bobby Driscoll, the voice of Disney's Peter Pan, lost his film contract due to puberty related acne, turned to drugs, went to prison, hung out with Andy Warhol, and died penniless and alone in an abandoned building in the East Village.
9wKXm TIL about Koro, a syndrome in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. Koro is also known as shrinking penis
QJJYE If it does, it's all in your head.