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TIL of the Fremdschämen, the German word for the horror you feel when noticing someone is oblivious to how embarrassing they are.

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4Xlwa TIL that we have prescription drug ads on TV because of one young woman's job interview.
PwNZ TIL, in 1899 taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for driving 12mph, 4 mph over the legal limit. He was pulled over by a police officer on a bicycle.
9wDrM TIL jet lag was first mentioned by Wiley Post writing about his 1931 world record flight around the earth in eight days.
KO9kQ TIL a Californian politician accidentally left his microphone on during a meeting break and was caught graphically boasting about two different affairs he was having. He resigned less than 15 hours after the story broke.
Bg64e TIL that in 1983, scientists created a machine that temporarily allowed people to see new colors outside of the regular color space.