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TIL High salt intake doesn’t increase your risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, or stroke. In one study, patients who ate less sodium had an increased risk of dying from heart disease. Also, when salt intake is cut, the body responds by releasing hormones that increase blood pressure.

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17kO TIL up until 1910, the Brazilian Navy routinely lashed black crewmen aboard their ships. After a crewman received 250 lashes, crews aboard 4 warships mutinied and threatened to shell Rio de Janeiro. Although Brazil did not honor promised amnesty for the mutineers, the lash was never used again.
78BZb TIL John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, and Abraham Zapruder all died or were declared dead at the same hospital: Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
VMLVZ TIL of Eben Grumpy of Iowa who was a little slow in paying John Sputter $30 he owed him. Sputter threatened to sue, so Grumpy painted a check on a door and dropped it on him from a third-story window next time he came over. A court ruled the door was legal payment.
NXAne TIL about the Soviet biologist Alexander Chizhevsky, who posited that movements of the sun caused major changes in politics and society. For example, Chizhevsky believed that the Russian revolution, along with various other upheavals and wars, was caused by solar cycles.
bAaj TIL that due to stress, boredom, loneliness and other reasons many exotic birds kept in captivity will pluck their own feathers out or self-mutilate