Slow burn wikipedia thread
One of the most terrifying diseases: Fatal Insomnia, where you lose the ability to fall asleep and then eventually go insane and die because you haven't slept in literally months
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Or the dude with an actual Murder Castle - this article is a wild ride through whacky, murdery shenanigans
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Hol
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Or this Tarrare, the guy with a neverending appetite who ate everything - absurd amounts of foods, trash, random objects, and possibly a toddler. He was used as a military spy because he could just eat and shit out documents in a box.
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Or the Congo's hand collection: a rule that ended up with a high value being placed on large quantities of severed hands, which were treated like a form of currency. The rest of the article is also horrible.
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Or Stigmatas! This is a thing where people spontaneously manifest religious wounds, often mimicking the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. A kind of sad article all around.
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We got the word 'cuck' from 'cuckoo', the bird which breeds by sneaking its own egg into other bird's nests.
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And in a nicer direction, I really like this word/concept: "Mudita," which means "vicarious joy"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita
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Ok back to poop: In Korea and some other asian countries, they have a Shutdown Law, which makes it illegal for kids to play video games during certain hours of the day:
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A list of all the women executed in the United States since 1976
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I've heard of it. I've also had an insomnia episode of 100 hours. It was not fun... the worst part was the serious distortion of my perception of time. It slowed down, so minutes seemed like hours to me... And as for Fatal Insomnia, suicide would be the best solution, I feel.