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TIL Watching fish in a tank lowers blood pressure, promotes relaxation and counters the adverse physiological effects of stress.

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W70l4 TIL that a toast sandwich is something that exists. There was a recipe for it in the ‘invalid cookery’ section of the 1861 Book of Household Management and in 2011, it was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
8elyG TIL Activision tried to buy out Tony Hawk’s royalty rights from him for $500k when the game was launching. He declined.
4JaX TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
9VBM TIL peas are categorised as seeds, and the pea pod is a fruit.
9vp6 TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.