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TIL you can change your testosterone and cortisol levels by changing body language and acting more alpha

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LQo10 TIL of The Lainz Angels of Death. Four women who were nurse’s aides convicted of murdering 49 patients with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into their lungs between 1983 and 1989. They were caught only after bragging about their latest murder in a local tavern. By 2008 all four are free.
61jm TIL that there was a now extinct species of crocodile that could gallop.
M7jRB TIL that 18th-century Russian general Vasily Mikhailovych Dolgorukov was promoted to officer after distinguishing himself during the Siege of Perekop in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735 - 1739 with the age of 13.
KOWXa TIL that Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, one of the highest-ranking men of African descent ever to lead a European army, has a verbal clashed with Napoleon Bonaparte.
LQVB9 TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century.