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TIL there is a way to make transparent wood, which is biodegradable and has many advantages over glass and plastic when used in architecture and furniture.

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mj5o TIL “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness”: Despite the the improvement in the lives of women over the past 35 years, measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. Women from the 1970s reported higher happiness than men.
ZpYo TIL that, whilst fighting in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell was shot through the neck. The bullet missed his main artery by a fraction, but he fully recovered - going on to write Animal Farm and 1984, amongst others.
D1vAj TIL that Reinhard Heydrich served as the president of the International Criminal Police Commission/INTERPOL from 1940-42
MeYx0 TIL that Roman Catholicism is the state religion of Costa Rica.
56pp TIL that the “Baseball T-shirt” sleeve style was originally designed to provide freer arm movement to benefit sword fighting.