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TIL that physical size and metabolism are directly correlated to time perception in all animals. Which may explain part of why you perceive time passing quicker with age.

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mxWpP In short, viruses can’t take the heat.
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6EyKQ TIL that Saddam Hussein had a Quran written in his own blood
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