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TIL Four Corners Monument, marking the only spot in the United States where four states (Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico) come together

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kJaOe TIL about Leo Major, a Canadian soldier who liberated a village alone during WWII, and later captured Hill 355 with 18 men during the Korean war, fighting thousands of men
MeWRW TIL When Rick James attended a dinner party in Hawaii with Salvador Dali, Dali insisted on drawing him, sketched him on a napkin and gave it to him. The priceless memento became an inky blob the next morning when he smoked a joint and went swimming with the napkin still in his swim trunks.
QBnL TIL a group got instructions to sleep as long as they wanted, their cortisol started to rise at 8, and woke up at 9. Another group was said they’d wake up at 6, and their CRH and cortisol rose at 5. Just their expectations of waking time changed the behaviour of stress hormones.
9wwgB TIL about the Genetic Isopoint - anyone alive at the genetic isopoint (or before) is either the ancestor of everyone alive today or no one alive today. And you can assume today will be a genetic isopoint for sometime in the distant future.
x6Jo TIL That the first animal launched into orbit, Laika, was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger