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a8GKJ TIL the 2004 Indonesian Earthquake had the equivalent energy of 23,000 Hiroshima explosions
oobo TIL that KIND, which makes energy bars, relies in part on spreading acts of kindness. Employees are given plastic cards that they can give out if they see random acts of kindess. Kind will then send the samaritan a couple bars as well as another card to pay the kindness forward to someone else.
QNNPL TIL about Witzelsucht, a neurological condition that makes you tell jokes and make puns in inappropriate situations and renders you incapable of reading sarcasm.
wLEjJ TIL about Ruth Corker Burks. In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, she cared for hundreds of people whose families had refused to claim them.
6E49l TIL Avocados are toxic to horses; they can cause respiratory distress, heart failure, and death.