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TIL that the symptoms of the mental disorder called Koro involve an intense fear that one’s genitals are fatally retracting into one’s body. It is most common among Asians

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9Q0Q TIL that Philips and Sony designed their first audio CDs to hold up to 74 minutes to ensure they could hold a complete recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
j6y6j TIL Thomas Midgley Jr. had the most adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history due to his invention of leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (two of the world's most harmful chemical compounds)
Lk0xp TIL that in 1758, George Washington spent his entire campaign budget on 160 gallons of liquor served to 391 voters.
l77VN TIL that there is a power station in Greenwich which formerly powered London's trams and is now the central emergency power supply for London Underground, in case of loss of power from the National Grid
x5Pb TIL a man came to own a boat known as ‘Hitler’s Yacht’ and neo-nazi’s offered him $500,000 for it. Instead he gave it away to a Jewish group so that they could sink it and turn it into a reef.