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TIL Research shows that taller people are happier but shorter people live longer

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ADJ7x TIL The same General Sherman who brought total war to the South in the American Civil War also created and carried out the plans to kill the Great Plains buffalo and destroy the Native American Midwestern tribes.
WQmA TIL a decrease in death penalties is causing an organ shortage in China: there are 20,000 donors and 1.5 million people who need transplants
R7PaQ TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.
XEW0Q TIL cows are the cause of 20 times more deaths than sharks. Whenever a cow gets scared they will charge and attack, considering they are over 1000 pounds death due to a cow charge is highly plausible. Sharks usually only kill humans when they mistake them for some other source of food like a turtle.
wQk8 TIL Christopher Nolan ‘begged’ David Bowie to act as Nikola Tesla in his movie 'The Prestige’