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TIL: The Mormon Church only gives 0.7% of their income to humanitarian causes. In comparison, the Methodists give 29%

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gMXY4 TIL When you take cocaine, the odds of you having a heart attack in the next hour goes up 24 times or 2400 %
1aReO TIL that heart break can cause severe physical pain and nausea. This is believed to be part of the survival instinct. The "social-attachment system" uses the "pain system" to encourage humans to maintain their close social relationships by causing pain when those relationships are lost.
oRy57 TIL that the 10,000 steps a day was an arbitrary number that came from a marketing campaign for an early pedometer launched ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The number was chosen because the Japanese character for 10,000 resembles a person walking.
XWB8 TIL children will, on average, eat 54% more fruits and vegetables if recess comes before lunch (versus the other way around)
PGRg TIL that the reason almost all public restrooms have what are called open front toilet seats, (u-shaped), is to “allow women to wipe the perineal area after using the toilet without contacting the seat".