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TIL: That 432 people own half the land in Scotland.
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TIL that in trial accusing Judas Priest of subliminal messages in their songs that made two young men commit suicide, the band argued that if you play speech backwards some of it will seem to make sense, so they played their album backwards and heard ‘Give me a peppermint’ and ‘Help me keep a job’
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TIL The widowhood effect is the increase in the probability of a person dying a relatively short time after their long-time spouse has died. The pattern indicates a sharp increase in risk of death for the widower, particularly, in the three months closest thereafter the death of the spouse.
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TIL astronaut Chris Hadfield once described problem-solving in NASA as “methodically looking for a solution until you run out of oxygen”
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TIL of Vivianite—a bright blue mineral that forms on skeletal remains when a person is buried in a waterlogged area containing a lot of iron and little oxygen. The phosphate leaking from their remains mixes with these elements to form crystal formations, which help preserve the remains over time.
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TIL one of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., asked for whiskey on his death bed, but was denied and died 36 years sober.