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TIL most of Sigmund Freud’s theories have been completely discredited to the point that almost no institution in any discipline would dare use him as a credible source

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rNkBx TIL: The Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona has been illegally built without a permit for 137 years.
W7LjL TIL the price of textbooks increases by an average of 12% with each new edition
GAyV4 TIL that there are 3 territories today claimed to be Terra nullius (’No man’s land’): Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and parts of Antarctica.
780MX TIL Serial killer Dimitris Vakrinos would kill people who mildly annoyed him. He once shot two random teens for being rude to someone on the street. After an argument with a fellow taxi driver over taxi priorities he tracked him down months later, got in his taxi posing as a customer and killed him
mxjko TIL the movie The Elephant Man is not an adaptation of the play of the same name, despite the fact that the play was a hit on Broadway at the time the film was made.