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TIL that childhood asthma and eczema are associated with anxiety, depression and poor maternal mental health

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M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
GYdP1 TIL In 1939 a 24 year old Orson Welles attempted to adapt Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' but had to cancel due to budget constraints. The studio asked him for a more conventional project. He suggested a B film of his, an exploration of a newspaper tycoon’s rise and downfall. He called it Citizen Kane.
OGAV7 TIL that nose size appears to be a significant predictor of penile size. The volume, length and height of the noses were confirmed to be related to the penile size (according to a 2023 South Korean study of 1160 men) A 2021Japanese study, conducted on 126 corpses, had similar outcomes
QJLDM TIL, while a 20 year old Rod Serling was serving in WWII, he saw his best friend killed by a falling crate of food. Seeing the unpredictability and irony of life and death, he would later use that experience to create, 'The Twilight Zone'.
PYZmE TIL about Vickrey auction, a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the other people in the auction. The highest bidder wins, but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This was first described academically by Nobel winner William Vickrey in 1961.