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

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GYjkj TIL That American Idol Judge Randy Jackson is the current bassist for the band Journey and played with them in the 80s
BrQoy TIL that at WWII, Brazil was fighting alongside the Allies in Italy. Three Brazilian soldiers fought against a large German party until running out of o ammo and dying. When the Germans discovered they were only three soldiers, they buried them and added the inscription: "To three Brazilian heroes"
788NO TIL: In Valencia, Spain, after a devastating flood in 1957 the Turia river was diverted away from the city center and created a successful green space for all on the riverbed which was completed in 1969.
jNBMQ TIL the inventor of the Erector Set also released an "Atomic Energy Laboratory" that included real uranium ore. One suggested activity was to play "hide and seek with the gamma ray source" by using the included Geiger counter to find a radioactive sample hidden in a room.
W7Oa8 TIL per a report released by the federation of American scientists, the United States government produces more classified information then unclassified.