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Today I Learned -- A palliative care nurse asked dying people about their regrets and the most common regret was : "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me"

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Br8kr TIL The song "Rooster" by Alice In Chains (probably their most famous song) wasn't written by lead singer Layne Staley, but by Jerry Cantrell, the bands guitarist. The title refers to his Father's childhood nickname and the song details his Father's traumatic time in the Vietnam War
D1bOr TIL That the Twinkie diet study, which aimed to prove that only calories mattered for weight loss, was secretly (at the time) funded by Coca-Cola.
KO4rR TIL Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period
D1vkJ Today I learned that High German is spoken in South Germany and that Low German is spoken in North Germany.
jN8bp TIL of Cerbalus aravaensis, a beautiful huntsman spider whose remaining habitat consists of just 1.2 square miles of land (3km sq)