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TIL a New York photographer went unnoticed before her suicide at age 22. Today Francesca Woodman is famous for the over 800 hauntingly beautiful and surreal photographs she left behind.

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7wMp TIL 20th century gangster and notorious bank robber Charles Floyd was, despite his life of crime, widely loved by the general public. This was because Charles himself was a victim of the Great Depression and would destroy mortgage papers at the banks he robbed to free others from their debts.
M7rX0 TIL Stress hormones can inhibit a process called anoikis, which kills diseased cells and prevents them from spreading. Chronic stress also increases the production of certain growth factors that increase your blood supply. This can speed the development of cancerous tumors.
Dr4P TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968
aw550 TIL "Plum Blossom Music" is the most widely spread classic Chinese instrumental music and was originally played on the flute by Huan Yin, the famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420). The music score was first recorded in Mysterious Music Scores compiled in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
R8o1 TIL some people get “weather headaches” from changes in barometric pressure