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TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy

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yQ4Ql TIL that when you eat fruit with its inherent fiber (aka eating the whole fruit) up to 30% of the sugar will be eaten by the microbes in your gut before it can be absorbed.
OoRba TIL of the Walleye War, a fishing dispute that took place in Minnesota in the 1990s and nearly resulted in a portion of the US being ceded to Canada.
ne8l9 TIL that there was a live adaptation of "How to Train Your Dragon" called "How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular" that ran in Australia during 2012-2013 from the same people that created "Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular". The pics are something else.
ZAbR TIL Cats bring you dead animals not as a gift, rather because they think you don’t know how to hunt and want to teach you.
VMjn8 TIL that the first American newspaper, Publick Occurrences, was published September 25, 1690