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Today I learned that by smiling, (fake or not) you actually speed up your recovery from stressful situations.

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1aejX TIL: In US presidential elections, it is possible to win the most electoral college votes +AND+ win the popular vote and yet still not win the presidency. This happened in 1877 meaning Rutherford B Hayes was awarded the position by a senate and house vote
lgO7 TIL a Quizno’s store manager kept her abandoned store open for months by using the cash from sales to buy bread and discount lunch meats
A4Eg TIL That the research behind “Type A and Type B personality traits” was secretly funded by cigarette companies in the 1960’s to suggest that smoking cigarettes didn’t cause cancer and heart disease, being Type A did.
Oo8Gg TIL that the man who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was also a fighter pilot and an intelligence officer who helped Winston Churchill convince the American government to secretly fight Nazi Germany before they joined World War 2.
MoV TIL that the serial number on a Euro note shows what country it is from & therefore some could be worth more than others if the Euro collapses.