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TIL It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.

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j6wwE TIL the lead singer of "You Got It All" (1986) by The Jets, which reached number 3 on the Hot 100, was 12 when her voice was recorded for it. She had trouble emotionally connecting with the song's romantic lyrics due to her age so her manager told her to imagine that she was singing it to a puppy.
OG8gX TIL the 1922 film Nosferatu was such a blatant rip off of Bram Stoker's Dracula that Bram's widow won a lawsuit demanding all copies of the film be destroyed. A single copy found its way to America, where Dracula was in the public domain due to copyright error, allowing the film to survive.
0BnR TIL Concorde pilots chased a solar eclipse at Mach 2. They extended it from 7 minutes to 74.
X0a0X TIL Chandra Kumari Gurung, a Nepalese woman, spent six years in a mental hospital after being mistakenly identified as a mental patient due to her inability to speak Korean.
lo8Jr TIL that the first person to die during a space mission was Vladimir Komarov in 1967. He knew the capsule was unsafe and that he would not be returning alive so he demanded an open casket funeral to send a message to the government officials who had caused his death