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TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself. (airandspace.si.edu)

TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation. (worldpopulationreview.com)

TIL that in Victorian London mail delivery routes would go by every house 12 times a day. (www.mentalfloss.com)

TIL about Cultural Cringe, where people view their own culture as inferior to others (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL That the Million Dollar 1988 McDonalds record winner was 13, had his mom claim it, she squandered a good chunk of it, had her BF steal what was left, lost his mom 10 years later, (www.vice.com)

TIL Most incels do not commit violent acts, but some have asserted violent domination through mass shootings. (news.harvard.edu)

TIL about The Unnaturals, a sketch comedy show on the former Ha! network starring Paul Feig, Tim Blake Nelson and Paul Zaloom (Beakman from Beakman's World) (www.imdb.com)

When Ha! merged with The Comedy Channel to become Comedy Central, the show continued, but without those three and with Dennis Leary. That’s the only video I could find on YouTube, a half-episode of that season....

n criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future (en.wikipedia.org)

Psychologists usually attribute belief in conspiracy theories to a number of psychopathological conditions such as paranoia, schizotypy, narcissism, and insecure attachment, (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that Duangphet Phromthep, the Captain of the Wild Boars Thai football team who were rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, took his own life in 2023 (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers (www.youtube.com)

TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms. (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)

TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.

TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. (historicalmx.org)

TIL Jeremy Brett had a 77-page "Baker Street File" that he wrote and referred to for his iconic performance of Sherlock Holmes (en.m.wikipedia.org)

He conducted extensive research on the great detective and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and was very attentive to discrepancies between the scripts he had been given and Conan Doyle’s original stories.[37] One of Brett’s dearest possessions on the set was his 77-page “Baker Street File” on everything from Holmes’...

TIL that Donald Rumsfeld holds the record for being both the youngest and oldest Secretary of Defense in US history ('75-'77 and '01-'06) (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there. (www.kidney.org)

TIL 28 different copies of the Rosetta Stone have been discovered (www.youtube.com)

This video is really cool. It’s a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.

TIL that in January 2014, a seven-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to Lego, pointing out the lack of female characters compared to male ones. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that in January 2014, a seven-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to Lego, pointing out the lack of female characters compared to male ones. A few months later, in June 2014, Lego introduced a “Research Institute” set showcasing female scientists, which quickly sold out.

TIL a British short film about the dangers of paedophiles was presented by Rolf Harris who was later charged as a paedophile (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Bill Cosby, Gene Hackman, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand were some of the names on Nixon's "Enemies List" (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that notoriously emasculated husband John Bobbit later also lost all his toes in a contaminated water scandal at Camp Lejeune. (www.the-sun.com)

TIL America and France fought an undeclared naval “Quasi-War” from 1798-1801, during which the Logan Act was passed into law, prohibiting diplomatic negotiations between a foreign power and private (history.state.gov)

TIL about Vertical Series, insane soap operas streamed in chunks of ~90 seconds in a vertical video format. They are all silly, terrible and some possibly written by AI. It is becoming a huge success. (www.rollingstone.com)

“Guys, please watch this insane ad I got on TikTok,” the caption of a viral thread on X (formerly Twitter) read last month. The thread, which has more than 20 million views, contains clips from a film titled Forbidden Desires: Alpha’s Love, about a college professor named Adrian who falls in love with his student, who also...