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TIL: There is a study by several PhDs also backed by 45 previous studies, that found out that height impacts salaries. Every inch above average height nets $789. Possible explanations are that tall people are seen as more leader like and the process of "looking down" makes one more confident.

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yYpw TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in “paradoxical undressing” because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death.
rR4We TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
6nw7 TIL that wild pigs throughout the Americas descend from pigs brought over on ships by the first Spanish explorers.
xOZ5 TIL During the filming of Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke (the actress who plays Daenerys Targaryen) was doused in so much fake blood during one scene that she got stuck to a toilet seat during a break.
VMQyD TIL A meteor travelling over central Italy in AD 312 brought Constatine closer to the Christian faith. Today that meteor can be found at Cratere del Sirente in central Italy. The carbon dating proves to be around the time Constatine saw it and had his vision.