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TIL Loneliness can kill you by ravaging your body and brain.

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ZpbER TIL that Nobel Prize winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang’s father-in-law was Du Yuming, a Kuomintang general who was later captured, re-educated as a war criminal and eventually became a senior official in the PRC.
OogkL TIL There's roughly 100 firefighter arsonists convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists, which means three or more fires
Ew9o TIL that the Royal Navy’s nuclear-armed submarines run on an outdated version of Windows XP called “Windows for Submarines”
jxAR TIL airlines refuse to adopt backwards facing seats despite proven safety advantages
woM06 TIL Eliot Indian Bible (1663), It was the first Bible translated into a Native American language on the continent, carried out by John Eliot financed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England and with the help of natives Cockenoe, John Sassamon, Job Nesuton and James Printer.