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TIL our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones

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KO7QE TIL Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., the 1958 Walt Disney Christmas special, “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas" airs on Sweden’s main public-television channel, TV1
8agmV TIL Street Fighter's boxer Balrog was originally named Mike Bison (a parody of Mike Tyson), but Capcom was concerned they could get sued. The name was shortened and given instead to the final boss, who became M. Bison.
yVnEJ TIL American socialite and art collector Peggy Guggenheim claimed to have slept with over 1,000 men, many of them well known artists and writers. Among her known friends and lovers were Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Max Ernst (who was also her second husband).
p8MJ8 TIL the Reichstag, which fell into disrepair after World War II but was rebuilt after the reunification of Germany, contains Soviet graffiti as "historical reminders," including one which reads "I fuck Hitler in the ass."
7r9kL TIL of Cinnabar. A bright scarlet form of Mercury(II) Sulfide and the most toxic mineral on Earth. Being sent to Spanish cinnabar mines in the Middle Ages was considered a death sentence.