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TIL Syndrome (The villain from The Incredibles) is named for Hero syndrome, where a person creates a dangerous situation in which they can be the hero

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g0XA TIL George Smith (1840-76)(modest family, left school at 14) had a keen interest in Assyriology and was so often seen at the British Museum that he was employed as classifier. He taught himself Sumerian and literary Akkadian and became the one to discover the oldest story we have: Epic of Gilgamesh.
4kpn6 TIL a man suffering from fatal familial insomnia, a condition whereby you become biologically incapable of sleep, attempted vitamin therapy, sensory deprivation, narcoleptics, and anesthesia to sleep, which prolonged his life by 12 months.
lvNN TIL the film Juno earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in just twenty days, the first nineteen of which were when the film was in limited release.
DQAne TIL When en route to prison following an arrest for witchcraft in 1619, Joan Flowers asked for bread as a substitute for the Eucharist. She claimed that something so blessed could not be consumed by a witch. She choked and died after the first bite.
1pj8 TIL The United States Military runs a psychological warfare program called Sockpuppet that is tasked with manipulating social media for propaganda purposes. It includes creating fake profiles and distributing fake user created material.