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TIL Sigmund Freud wrote in a love letter: “Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”

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xQO5 TIL A ten-year-old in Missouri formed a stable molecule previously unknown to scientists during class, and was credited as co-author in a paper written about it.
E1VpX TIL that in 2019 scientists finally calculated that a day on Saturn was, 10 hours 33 minutes and 38 seconds long. This number still has a degree of error of a couple of minutes longer or shorter but is less than the previous 12 minute window.
b9WYa TIL Former fire captain/fire investigator John Orr was one of the most prolific serial arsonists in US history. He set over 2000 fires, killing 4, and after his capture brush fires in the foothills of California decreased by 90% from an average of over 60 per year to just 1 per year.
NEPe TIL that VICE, the rather left and “alternative” news outlet, is owned partly by Rupert Murdoch
Wkje8 TIL: The "overview effect" is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space. It is the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space.