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TIL that animal owners experience similar grief/loss emotions when they lose a pet as they do when they lose a human.

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yQA0e TIL: One of the more popular early American wiping objects was the dried corn cob
b6lwa TIL screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network) takes six to eight showers a day to get over writer’s block. If writing isn’t going well, he takes a shower, puts on different clothes, and tries again.
vJB4 TIL As much as 7% of the population has experienced waking from sleep and being totally paralyzed but aware as mind & body become out of sync in REM cycles.
Eld TIL in the 60’s Nazi themed pornographic comics were hugely popular in Israel. Often read by the children of Holocoust survivors, the books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots
rNl0y TIL that the Fukushima disaster would have caused far less months of life lost if the residents were instead sheltered in place because of the factors due to the displacement such as suicide, depression and stress causing more months of life lost in the process.