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TIL that looking at flowers reduces blood pressure and cortisol levels.

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l7jv1 TIL Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the Glass Armonica. A musician powered a foot pedal to rotate 36 concentric glass bowls and produced notes by putting wet fingers to the spinning glass.
PWpw TIL of three Duke lacrosse players being falsely accused of rape in 2006. Since then, the lead prosecutor has been disbarred, the accuser is in prison for second-degree murder, and the police supervisor commited suicide.
vwmL TIL The United States of America has nuked inside it’s own borders at least 988 times. That’s only slightly less than the number of nuclear weapon tests conduct by the rest of the world combined at ~1,011.
JDdB TIL In The Quarterly Review of Biology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Uppsala University in Sweden have concluded through their research that sexual orientation is not genetic.
gn5b TIL the current CEO of Cinnabon is a 35 year old women that formerly worked at Hooters and worked her way up the ranks