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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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XEkA6 TIL Anna Ayala, the lady who tried to fraudulently sue Wendy's for finding a human finger in her chili, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for this stunt.
wLwx7 TIL photography film was made with only Caucasian skin in mind and Kodak only really developed the technology to colour balance darker skin tone by chance- because of complaints over poor light calibration from makers of brown furniture.
kYRW TIL Samoans are some of the tallest people in the world because they practiced eugenics. The tallest warriors were selected as mates.
woGM1 TIL it takes 140 litres of water to produce 1 cup of coffee
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”