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TIL a broken heart can actually kill you - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy aka Broken Heart Syndrome

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neoEr TIL President Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet cult film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” at least eight times in preparation for his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, to try and understand the mysterious Russian soul.
EKX0 TIL Bobby Fischer developed a variant of chess where the starting positions were randomized because he thought too many top level players were simply memorizing opening positions
VBvAp TIL that the Sagamihara stabbings occurred on 26 July 2016 in Sagamihara, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six injured at a care home for disabled people. The attacker, former employee Satoshi Uematsu, surrendered and was sentenced to death. It is Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing.
LQYjm TIL Mark Matthews was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, enlisting in 1910 and retiring in 1949 before becoming a security guard and retiring again in 1970. He died in 2005 at the age of 111.
5YaAQ TIL that the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights are incredible light shows that caused by collisions between electrically charged particles and Earth’s atmosphere. They occur mostly in high altitudes near the poles. These events inspire stories from prehistoric times