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TIL Arkham Asylum was named after Arkham, Massachusetts, the fictional town central to many H.P. Lovecraft stories.

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vrQ4 TIL Jake Lloyd, the actor who played young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I, is suffering from schizophrenia and was admitted to a psychiatric facility on April of 2016.
4GGa TIL A “Sherpa” isnt a porter on mountain-climbing expedition but an ethnic group living mostly in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. Sherpas all have the surname “Sherpa”. The name was mistakenly given to them by Nepalese census takers who didn’t realize that last names are not a part of Sherpa culture.
OGM81 TIL that scallops have up to 200 eyes and that they contain tiny crystals that act like concave mirrors like on the Hubble telescope
VMwg8 TIL that Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
wxl8 TIL that in 1978 France rolled out a pre-World Wide Web online service (MiniTel) that gave it’s users access to online shopping, search engines, cybersex, message boards etc … France Telecom only retired the service in 2012 after 30 years and 800 000 units still in use.