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TIL Cows are social animals, capable of forming close bonds with each other and when their friends are gone they become stressed.

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j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.
oRe5L Today I learned that the opposite of the placebo effect is called the nocebo effect, and occurs when a patient, believing he is taking a drug, is likely to recreate, by suggestion, side effects he may have heard about, or simply read about on the médication package.
Ypr8r TIL researchers were able to predict whether or not a couple will stay together with extreme accuracy based on one partner’s reaction to things that excited the other. For example, if a wife says “look at that beautiful bird” and the husband blows it off, that’s a strong indication they’ll divorce.
5VlgB TIL WW1 Flying Ace Frank Luke ranks 2nd to Eddie Rickenbacker but did it in only 8 days while Rickenbacker flew more patrols and more combat hours than any other pilot in the entire war
7rRZZ TIL that Abraham Lincoln was a big fan of John Wilkes Booth and even invited him to The White House.