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TIL about the women-are-wonderful effect which is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with women when compared to men

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P44g TIL that MIT and CalTech maintain a “bitter” rivalry despite being 3,000 miles apart. Unlike most rivalries, it’s based largely on pranks–including the theft and transport of an antique cannon from one campus to the other, and the appearance of a “TARDIS” on top of a student hall.
Z87eQ TIL of former judge Donald Thompson who was convicted of indecent exposure after he exposed himself several times during jury trials. His was witnessed using a penis pump “almost daily” during a murder trial and a “whooshing” sound could be heard on audio recordings of the proceedings.
X0OAj TIL parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships that person has with a celebrity such actors musicians, and social media influencers. Relationships range from mild- entertainment to pathological obsessive.
yQwel TIL that for the 10th anniversary edition of the film 'Titanic', James Cameron edited the starry night sky to be exactly as it would have been on April 15th, 1912 at 4:20am. This was after astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson repeatedly emailed, chiding him for getting the sky wrong in the original
pmYp TIL: The “182” from “Blink 182” references the number of times Al Pacino says “fuck” in Scarface.