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TIL Arkansas men’s lung cancer rate is 40% higher than women.

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OoWaR TIL when Brendan Shanahan was 14 years old, he asked star hockey player Rick Vaive for an autograph, but was rudely brushed away. 4 years later, Shanahan was in the NHL, and fought and beat up Vaive the first time they played against each other
gGl9 TIL of a study measuring whether the tiredness/hunger of a judge affected the prospects of getting parole. At the beginning of a session, a prisoner had a 65% chance of being parolled, the authors found. This declined to almost zero by the end of a session, and leaped back to 65% after a break.
5YD58 TIL the world has a daddy issue
wLP1o TIL there are 4 animals who use sunlight as energy: the eastern emerald elysia (a sea slug), the mint-sauce worm, the oriental hornet, and the embryos of the spotted salamander.
N7p8N TIL Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, and Rée all fell in love with the same woman, Lou Salomé. Intellectual and prolific, she was the first female psychoanalyst and lived free of society’s prescription for women. She was the ultimate feminist/ubermensch, yet is completely forgotten by history.