› added 2 years ago

144

TIL: Loneliness is associated with increased risk of developing Parkinson disease.

Read more jamanetwork.com

via reddit.com

QN9e6 TIL I learned that the artists who built an apartment in a Mall recorded 25 hours of footage over the 4 years. Mostly the planning, building, and 1st year. 2 of them ran when security came, the returned and a photo album and PlayStation was missing. PS2 contained save dates on memory card.
D1EAD TIL a 2003 study suggests that 1 in 200 men are direct descendants of Genghis Khan. Almost 8% of men living in the former Mongolian empire carry nearly identical Y chromosomes.
a87wo TIL Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks Son) owns a handkerchief company called Hanks Kerchiefs
0VAp TIL The depression throughout Japan following WWII was what inspired Osamu Tezuka,the father of manga and a medical student at the time,to draw comics to convince people to have hope again.These comics swept thru Japan and laid the foundation for the Japanese manga/anime culture that we know today
loMea TIL Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden) and his then-solo band drove through the front lines of war in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They weren't protected and there were bullets flying around. They played a show for the people trapped in the city.