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TIL contemporaries of President Abraham Lincoln compared his high-pitched voice to a falsetto.

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vPGpr TIL that 1-2% of adults suffer from nocturnal enuresis or involuntary bed-wetting
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9wd9p TIL in 2016, 19-year-old Florida frat boy Austin Harrouff walked into a garage and killed two strangers, biting one of the victims' faces. He thought he was “half man, half dog” and being chased by a demon. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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