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TIL The shiver you get when you experience something with strong emotions, is called Frisson

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6EY17 TIL that in the early 2000’s people complained that their Mac laptops mysteriously started giving off the smell of really bad body odor. Turns out the culprit was an adhesive used on the keyboards that started to break down after a few years, outgassing a foul smell in the process.
GYLKG TIL after the infamous German cannibal case of Armin Meiwes and his willing 'victim' Bernd Brandes in 2001, Detlev Guenzel repeated that act in 2013, on the same site Meiwes found his victim.
XoaP TIL a person infected with toxoplasmosis is more than twice as likely to be in a car accident—attributed to the parasite’s tendency to reduce reaction time—and has a higher than normal risk of schizophrenia and suicide
JBe4 TIL that humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet, able to beat horses (and everything else) in marathon distance races.
6EmAY TIL Intel Corporation continues to install drivers on their PC's with a driver date of 7/18/1968. That's not a typo. Intel was founded on that day.