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

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R5Mv6 TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch
D1NeD TIL that Johnson & Johnson is a holding company for 250 separate, subsidiary businesses
0dE4M TIL of a condition called nocturnal lagophthalmos, which prevents you from closing your eyes completely during sleep.
ne069 TIL of Southeastern Provisions, a slaughterhouse in which its owner was reported for weekly deposits of $100K for in-cash-payroll. Many workers were undocumented and not paid for overtime. After a undercover operation, the IRS and ICE raided the site in one of the largest raids in US history.
P15NL TIL Japanese Mass Suicides in WW2