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TIL daily exercises in self-control, such as improving posture, altering verbal behavior, and using one’s nondominant hand for simple tasks, gradually produce improvements in self-control

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4kKYw TIL that human bites contain so many germs that they’re actually septic.
p85y8 TIL that having more lifeboats on the Titanic would not have saved more lives. In fact, taking into account the amount of time they had to launch and the amount of crew there were, it’s actually incredible that they managed to launch as many as they did.
D1RGD TIL Big Bang Theory character Leonard Hofstadter was named after Robert Hofstadter; an American physicist who jointly won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
evwg TIL Helen Keller was a radical Socialist who detested Capitalism as “an intolerable system” that causes blindness and deafness.
8k18 TIL that Earth has sent out a radio signal towards a possible life-containing exoplanet named Gliese 581c. It is supposed to reach the planet by late 2029.