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TIL that cuddling (or other ‘love’ acts) helps to heal physical wounds faster due to the release of Oxytocin which is proven to reduce swelling.

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xNMw TIL That while Mandarin Has Twice as Many Native Speakers as English, English Has Twice as Many Total Speakers.
PJke TIL: In China, it’s illegal to use a wordplay or a pun in advertising or on television.
LQeaV TIL about the fundamental attribution error. A theory in social psychology which posits that people tend to overattribute the behaviour of others to their personality and underattribute them to situation or context
x647B TIL during WWI, Allied soldiers used glowworms as trench lamps, storing the bioluminescent insects in bottles for light. Their service was so helpful, they were honored in 2004 when Princess Anne unveiled a London memorial for animals and insects that aided the war effort.
kOWjB TIL that the star Antares has a diameter around 700 times larger than our sun’s, which is approximately 6 times the distance from Earth to Mars and 2/3 of the distance to Saturn, while having a mass only 7 times larger than the mass of our sun