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TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.

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gralb TIL that thousands of Graffiti inscriptions, with the earliest dating back to 1605 by the first Spanish Governor of New Mexico, have been carved into the El Morro National Monument in New Mexico.
6Y68 TIL previous experience can make us ‘blind’ to seeing the best way of solving problems in everything from chess to surgery – known by psychologists as the Einstellung effect
o11r TIL Will Smith improvised all the lines in his monologue about his father on Fresh Prince. The emotional ending and the hug was not scripted and he thought the cameras had stopped rolling when he said “How come he don’t want me, man?” His dad had left him as a child.
rRwkW TIL In Las Vegas there were atomic bomb parties chamber of commerce advertised detonation times and the best spots for watching. Casinos offered special “atomic cocktails” and “Dawn Bomb Parties,” Women dressed as mushroom clouds for the “Miss Atomic Energy” crown at the Sands.
ADjlx TIL about Izumi Sakai, the vocalist and de facto leader of the J-Pop band Zard. After she died from an accident while undergoing treatment for cancer, a posthumous single was released and used as a theme song for her favorite anime Detective Conan