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TIL that crying can boost your mood. Cortisol (a stress hormone) is concentrated in tears. Emotional tears (sadness, anger, or joy) contain higher levels of stress hormones & natural pain-relieving substances than basal tears (eye lubricant). So, when in stress, you can literally cry it out

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4kBQg TIL the song 'Weapon of Choice' by Fatboy Slim (2001) has the lyrics 'Walk without Rhythm, it won't attract the worm' which is a quote from Frank Herbert's Dune (1965). The music video features a dancing Christopher Walken who would later join the cast of the Dune Part II (2024).
5ooQ TIL that a 2012 study concluded that pop music has grown louder and increasingly musically homogeneous since the mid-1960s
VnMZ TIL that Joseph Colombo, who started the Italian-American Civil Rights League to protest the depiction of Italians as Mafia in entertainment, was the head of the Colombo Crime Family.
4xp5 TIL that President Harry S. Truman commanded an artillery battery in WW1 in the US Army, and under his command, ‘Battery D did not lose a single man in France.’
7ryxM TIL the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group found seven previously unacknowledged massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 civilians were killed. The harshest sentence was 20 years but the officer served 7 months.