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TIL People with many moles have longer telomeres and are more likely to live longer

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X0eW8 TIL that the Castle Bravo nuclear test was 3x as powerful as the designers expected. This was due to unexpected fission of lithium-7, which greatly increased the yield of the other nuclear reactions.
wyYJ TIL popular dog actor Rin-Tin-Tin received the most votes for the first Academy Award for Best Actor, but was removed as a choice as the Academy felt a human should win instead
1gW TIL that Lofoten in Norway is north of the Arctic Circle. Yet because of the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude it is teeming with life and has the largest deep water coral reef in the word.
60YX TIL listening to soft voices can cause “brain orgasms” (aka autonomous sensory meridian response). A video of a woman explaining how to fold towels has over 900,000 views because her voice can trigger the sensation.
NDyJ TIL in 1920, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested thousands of innocent Americans for radical leftist activity, in what is now called the Palmer Raids