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TIL Loneliness can weaken the immune system

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AN1R7 TIL that in 300 years, only 2 British Prime Ministers have failed re-election after securing government from opposition. They were both over 150 years ago.
awjxJ TIL that the world's largest cemetery is Wadi-us-Salaam ("Valley of Peace") in Najaf, Iraq - it contains tens of millions of bodies over an area of 6 km², and approximately 500,000 new bodies from around the globe are buried there annually
mxAvO TIL about Shavarsh Karapetyan was a world-record holder in finswimming. In 1976, a bus with 90 people crashed into a lake, he rescued over 20 people by repeatedly diving, was hospitalized for 3 weeks, suffered irreversible lung damage, and set another world record at the next USSR championship.
jD7p TIL that one developer spent two years programming Batman’s cape in the game Arkham Asylum
m10DY TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona