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TIL an authentic smile is called a "Duchenne Smile". It happens when the zygomaticus major muscle lifts the corners of your mouth at the same time the orbicularis oculi muscles lift your cheeks and crinkle your eyes at the corners.

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wPeP TIL the world’s oldest joint-stock corporation, the East India Company, was also the longest surviving, spanning 274 years, run by the wealthy merchants, beyond government control, had its own private armies and ruled a sub-continent by means of political and economic subjugation.
VBlwB TIL that according to a survey, 64.6% of women knew they wanted to go out with the last guy they went on a date with within the first 10 minutes of meeting him. This implies that waiting for the right moment to ask a girl out is not a good idea.
grOQ4 TIL in 1962 a General Electric engineer named Nick Holonyak developed the first LED light bulb capable of emitting visible red light. The same bulb was used in the 1964 stop animation animated TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for Rudolph’s bioluminescent nose.
rovo TIL Nunavut has the lowest graduation rate in Canada and a student from Qikiqtarjuaq became the first high schooler to graduate in four years in 2016
ADjr4 TIL as a young boy Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) had his village occupied by nazis, his family forced to work while living in a 3 by 3 meter mud hut for 21 months, saw his little brother being hanged (but saved by his parents) and his two older siblings deported for slave labor (who escaped).