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TIL Research shows that couples who slept naked felt happier in their relationships

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LkbeQ TIL that 'Keep Calm and Carry On' was produced by the MOI of British Government to be issued in the event of the Second World War. But it was never officially issued and very few original designs have remained.
erxn TIL drug overdoses from opiods increased 14% in 2014, killing 40,000 people. This is an increase of 137% since 2000. More people die from drug overdoses, says the CDC, than in road accidents: just under 33,000 people died in traffic accidents last year in 2014.
GY51E TIL about Gareth Jones, the Welsh reporter who broke the Holodomor story - Russia's secret mass starvation of at least 3.5 million Ukrainians. He was murdered one day before his 30th birthday, most likely by the Soviet NKVD as retaliation for embarrassing the regime.
rPYe TIL of “aerial reforestation” - a process whereby conical canisters which contain a seedling packed in soil and nutrients are dropped from a plane. They could drop as many as 100,000 saplings in a single flight. The system could plant as many as a million trees in one day.
jOaQ TIL In 1928 two AF officers flew to a record of 38,000 feet in a small biplane. The controls then completely froze in the -78 degree air, and with oxygen depleting, they waited for 20 minutes until the plane ran out of fuel. Now powerless, the pilot glided all the way down for a smooth landing