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TIL the term “gaslighting” originates in a British play-turned film from the 1930s. The play was called “Gas Light” and the plot is about a husband who mentally and emotionally manipulates his wife... (woventraumatherapy.com)
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TIL some boys used to be castrated so as to keep their soprano voices due to not reaching sexual maturity. Their rib cages were also bigger allowing them more lung and vocal capacity. There is only... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Rick Ennis, who brutally murdered his parents in 1993 when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 42, was again charged and convicted of killing a woman named Lori Slesinski. (www.cbsnews.com)
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TIL: Inmates are not allowed to wear wigs or artificial hairpieces. (www.ecfr.gov)
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TIL that 25% of all known animal species are beetles (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a Billy Joel biopic called "Piano Man" has been greenlit, but no rights for Joel's music, name/likeness, or life story were granted (variety.com)
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TIL the Eiffel Tower has been painted nearly twenty times. It’s been shades of red, yellow, brown, and grey, and has never been painted black. (www.toureiffel.paris)
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TIL: Saad Abe was a famous Geisha, who after 2+ hours of intimacy and erotic choking, killed her lover, cut off his penis and balls and began carrying them around until her arrest and practiced nec... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that when you snap your fingers, the noise is made when your finger slaps your palm, not when the fingers flick past each other. (askdruniverse.wsu.edu)
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TIL that scientists thought Rhizocophala, a group of parasitic barnacles, were hermaphroditic, as many other barnacles. But then they discovered the "testes" were actually males living inside the f... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that all but three mammals have seven cervical (neck) vertebrae, the exceptions being the manatee (6), two-toed sloth (5 or 6), and three-toed sloth (9). (en.wikipedia.org)
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