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kJ58W TIL death to sleep deprivation may have a causal link with the accumulation of molecules called Reactive Oxidative Species (ROS) in the gut, though we're not yet sure why it builds up in the first place.
R5WRj TIL: Harvard conducted a study where they track the health of their students from 1938 to 2017. Happiness and close relationships with family are a bigger factor than IQ, wealth, genes, etc in a healthy life. Good marriages lead to less mental deterioration than stressful ones.
womMJ TIL In 1951, W.E.B. Du Bois was being indicted by the US government for failing to register as a "foreign agent". The judge dropped the case right after Albert Einstein offered to appear as a character witness.