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TIL that St. Bibiana is the patron saint of hangovers

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8aKjG TIL: During the 2014 Sochii Olympics in Russia, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak—responding to complaints about facilities—claimed the problems were due to sabotage and their surveillance video of people's behavior in hotel showers proved it.
8an1L TIL The Worlds oldest mummies are not from Egypt. They are from the Chincorro people of the Atacama Desert, present day Chile, dating back to 5000 BC, nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians
5YnG8 TIL that in 1666 the Dutch painter Willem van de Velde, when tasked with portraying a sea battle, manned a ship himself to make live drawings of the ongoing Four Days Battle from as close as possible.
9YDaG TIL monkeys show signs of both risk aversion and loss aversion, and can be taught to use currency - in experiments with statistically identical outcomes, monkeys performed like humans in preferring to avoid risky transactions, and by putting more weight on losses than on gains
wLoLY TIL that there is evidence that voluntary running suppresses tumor growth by mobilizing natural killer cells in an epinephrine-dependent manner.