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TIL that Tylenol has been shown to reduce the emotional pain associated with anxiety.

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5PgQ TIL that it was common for some Romans to take up a “beautiful-looking” prepubescent boy as a sex-slave to serve both the master and mistress of a household, castrating him so the boy retains his prepubescent qualities.
jPPM TIL: The most poisonous animal in America is the rough-skinned newt, whose skin contains a poison 10,000 times deadlier than cyanide. They are far more toxic than any other land animal because their predator, the garter snake has become increasingly immune to the toxin as it has become more potent.
rRkYd TIL The girl who sang "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" was gifted a hippo in real life as a result of the song
xe7o TIL last year we found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the bellybutton, everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint, and one volunteer’s belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.
9a46 TIL A Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy died in Toronto trying to prove that the glass in the windows of a 24th floor office was unbreakable by throwing himself against it. It was an act he had done twice before. The windows didn’t break but they popped out of the frame and he plunged to his death.