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TIL Tears contain a natural painkiller leucine-enkephalin which reduces pain and improves mood

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XEb0P TIL that from 1983 to 1987, the two members of the US House of Representatives from Maine, John McKernan and Olympia Snowe, were boyfriend and girlfriend. They later married after McKernan was elected Governor.
xAo5 TIL, 11.9% of all children in Africa are orphans
wag1 TIL: During a renovation in 1998 over a dozen bodies were found buried in Benjamin Franklin’s former house. The bodies were dated to the timeframe when he lived there.
VB0BD TIL that an XY genetic male was born with a womb, and was able to give birth to twins
BrMvx TIL garbage trucks in Taiwan play a musical tune like ice cream trucks