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TIL Cats cannot taste sweetness.

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v1lb8 TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.
X0n4r TIL that Alaska has a much higher rate of missing persons per 100,000 residents than any other state, standing at a stark 42.16 compared to the next highest, Arizona, with 12.28.
94ND TIL deep in Africa there are accounts of people seeing dinosaur-like creatures that resembles a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. The locals call it Mokèlé-mbèmbé and there have been several documented expeditions to find it from as early as 1776 to as late as 2012.
XEd8D TIL massage can increase serotonin and dopamine, while decreasing cortisol and norepinephrine. Just two 20 min sessions a week make a positive difference!
r1aM TIL That the Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong was home to 33,000 residents all of which lived in hundreds of interconnected high rise buildings crammed into a 210m x 120m space. The construction was so dense that sunlight didn’t filter down to the lower levels. Photos in link.