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TIL that post-relationship grief affects men, in the long term, more than women.

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LQ1Op TIL about the Bloody Benders, a family of 4 serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1872. The Ingalls family, from Little House on the Prairie, lived near Independence, and Laura Ingalls Wilder mentioned the Bender family in her writings.
5Yl98 TIL in 1901, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel out of wood, old hacksaw blades and bicycle spokes; using it to test more than 200 wing shapes hand made from pieces of sheet steel and wax. The data it generated was critical to their first powered flight two years later.
vQ17 TIL that Reinhard Heydrich, one of the men responsible for the Holocaust, was such a hardcore Nazi that Adolf Hitler called him “the man with the iron heart”.
p6bb TIL Brain Training games don’t make you any smarter.
LXPP TIL That many of Rodin’s most famous works, including The Thinker, are actually enlargements from a single sculptural piece, The Gates of Hell