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TIL the so called “Blue Zones” of longevity are likely just regions rife with clerical errors and pension fraud

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ANawg TIL The longest recreational trail in North America, and the world, is not the Appalachian or Pacific Coast Trail, it is the The Trans Canada Trail. It is 15,000 miles long and it stretches from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans.
VE9D TIL that Walmart banned the sale of Superbad in Honolulu because it contained a replica of the fake i.d card Mclovin’ used in the movie.
BRKe TIL: In 2000 the KKK adopted a stretch of highway near St Louis, the MO government responded by renaming the road the “Rosa Parks Highway”.
R71al TIL that a Latvian man evaded the Soviets in bunkers in the woods for the entirety of the 50 year Soviet occupation. He came put when the last Soviet troops left, age 70.
W7jV8 TIL: There is an actual non joke study which studies the influence of CUMS in male rats. CUMS stood for Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress. The CUMS rats were deprived of water, food, and had their cage tilted with white noise and 2 stranger rats with them to study how it effects their libido.