› added 9 years ago

157

TIL that you can literally die of a broken heart; Broken heart syndrome, also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy can cause severe heart muscle failure, and can be the result of the severe stress hormones released after serious emotional trauma.

Read more nhlbi.nih.gov

via reddit.com

Egol0 TIL that the Golden rule of treating others the way you want to be treated exists among emotionally intelligent primates like chimps and bonobos.
YrkW TIL that New York City is one of four major cities in the United States whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The city is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed.
8aoYX TIL During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS sometimes airdropped pianos onto battlefields for the American troops.
KOnr9 TIL about Project Azorian. In 1974 the CIA built a gigantic claw and lowered it three miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to snag the entire wreck of a sunken Soviet submarine. And they partially succeeded.
ver TIL Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilising criminal, people with mental problems and believed that by 2100 people who aren’t “desirable parents” shouldn’t be able to breed