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TIL people can't eat after a breakup due to the body going into survival mode. There's fewer constrictions and relaxations of the muscles in your stomach and bowels, which consequently slows down the digestion of food.

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ANG9o TIL the Soviets trained dogs as anti-tank bombers, but they attacked Russian tanks instead of German ones due to a training error. The Soviets used diesel tanks for training, while German tanks ran on gasoline. The dogs' keen sense of smell led them to familiar Soviet tanks instead of the Germans.
p8oQO TIL that if you add 250 ml of water with 250ml of ethanol you get less than 500ml of liquid.
nebK9 TIL in 1961, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wrote a book called “Guerrilla Warfare”, which explained different tactics for waging guerrilla warfare in different countries. Bolivian counter-insurgency forces also studied this book, which eventually led to Guevara’s capture and execution in 1967.
5Vygr TIL after feeling dissapointed by how DARLING in the FRANXX ended and wanting to explore some of the concepts, canadian writer Xiran Jay Zhao wrote Iron Widow, a reimagining of the story of Wu Zetian in a futuristic medieval China. The book won multiple awards and became a NY Times best seller.
WkWGB TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.