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TIL During pregnancy a womans brain shrinks and it takes up to six months to regain its original size

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69r7 TIL That a guy named Souflikar killed 5,000 people with his bare hands.
4XAja TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.
69Q0Z TIL that having a bad boss makes you more likely to be one, yourself.
5ner TIL the only senator to vote against the US entering the Second World War, after the Pearl Harbor attack, defended her position by saying “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.” Republican leaders from Montana – her state – demanded she change her vote, but she refused.
R7dQ4 TIL that Brian Eno created the Windows 95 startup sound. He ended up finishing the final touches using a Macintosh computer, because he doesn’t like Windows machines.