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TIL Conan O’Brien was once stalked by a Catholic priest

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wL58o TIL Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11 in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.
AN0Zg TIL the chain locker on a ship is one of the most dangerous rooms for a person. The oxidizing metal can drop oxygen to lower than 6%. Normal air contains 21% oxygen
ZRZv TIL the Doomsday Clock is set to 3 minutes to midnight, the first time since 1984
6wlm TIL that Martin Seligman proved that people with a pessimistic explanatory style are more likely to develop depression. He also proved that, with some work, people can teach themselves a more optimistic explanatory style.
XE4ZX TIL Carrie C White spent 75 years in Florida State Hospital after being institutionalized by her husband. Staff didn’t know why she was there for so long, given her lack of meds, or symptoms. Few would know of her if Guinness World Records hadn’t temporarily named her the oldest person in the world.