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TIL Our brains respond to rejection in the same manner as physical pain. "The same areas of our brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain."

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6XBm TIL that the Canadian Football League has existed since 1909, and for the first three a university team beat three professionals to get the championship.
6EEjm TIL drinking coffee is correlated with reduced mortality rates
Z5vG TIL India is considered the “pharmacy of the developing world” and delivers affordable medicines to poor people all around the world by exporting 50% of of its $10bn annual generic medicine production.
AbWo TIL in WW2 that Raymond Collishaw, leading pilots who were outnumbered and outgunned, flew their only Hawker Hurricane from base to base and on as many missions as possible to make the Italians believe that they had many. The plan worked as the Italians spread their resources out thinly.
GGVE TIL After Franklin Roosevelt called Joe Kennedy, father of JFK, to Washington, D.C. to clean up the securities industry, somebody asked FDR why he had tapped such a crook. “Takes one to catch one,” replied Roosevelt.