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TIL Loneliness and feeling unloved are twice as likely to kill you as being fat.

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yQ47p TIL the first song Joshua Radin ever wrote and recorded (on his roommate’s computer) was ‘Winter’, which was featured at the end of arguably the best Scrubs episode, ‘My Screw Up’. He was friends with Zach Braff because they went to Northwestern together. It launched his music career.
BeBd TIL that Australia is the only continent outside of Antartica WITHOUT an established deer population.
b4Va TIL medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern workers
OGEeY TIL Grass didn't exist until the Cretaceous
dD579 TIL the homochirality of biological molecules is exclusively a feature of life on Earth. Extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds, and common organic syntheses always yield racemic mixtures. It is not known to science why that is the case.