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TIL Fake smiling causes real happiness

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bL57 TIL of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomena which is the illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one’s attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards
rwM TIL there’s a dialect that’s spoken only by 2 people, who don’t like each other and don’t talk to each other.
GALAN TIL They developed and implemented Pacemakers powered by a Plutontum 238 source, people are still living with them til this day
wLnDP TIL the third wife of emperor Claudius, Messalina, was so bold that she publicly married another man while Claudius was out of Rome, apparently in a coup attempt against the emperor. Claudius was informed and found his family's heirlooms in the new husband's home. The pair were predictably executed
X0kpE TIL That boy hedgehogs masturbate. A lot.