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TIL that excessive lurking on Facebook can negatively impact people's emotional well being and their satisfaction with life

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X06e8 TIL the original yellow power ranger was a guy and not a girl, but most of the fight scenes in the American version are copied the original Japanese show and that's why the yellow ranger doesn't wear a skirt and has a bulge.
epEP6 TIL the word Utopia was invented by Renaissance Humanist scholar and writer Sir Thomas More, in a fictional 16th-century novel about an ideal society. He was eventually beheaded by Henry VIII for refusing to recognize the King's Church Of England.
nWNKW TIL pumpkin toadlets are so tiny that their inner ear has become too small for them to keep balance while jumping
5VO99 TIL in 1879, a French peasant woman and her husband claimed (falsely) to have inherited a large sum of money from a stranger who’s life they saved on a train. They lived in luxury for 20 years until the safe was opened and contained a brick and an English halfpenny.
69Qj7 TIL that 6,000 Mexican textile workers were massacred in 1907