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TIL that the words "sniping" and "sniper" originated from a hard-to-catch bird called a snipe

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nW767 TIL that when facing uncertainty, women feel more attracted to men with tougher facial features. Under the same conditions, men feel more attracted to women with more tender facial features.
5YnrR TIL sufferers from Anton–Babinski syndrome are blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.
LkkxZ TIL it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey
amob TIL of ‘Radium Girls’, US Radium, and UnDark, radium paint applied to watches and gauges. Though executives protected themselves, they denied any danger to ‘the girls’ applying UnDark and blamed health problems on syphilis. The 'girls’ died rapidly, their bodies radioactive almost a century later.
WkBgX TIL that high HRV measures good health while low HRV measures poor health regarding stress, burnout, and fatigue - it can be useful in measuring stress outside of fitness too