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TIL that a person’s willpower is directly linked to their glucose levels. So people quitting smoking, when you get a craving just have some jelly beans instead.

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l7Pn5 TIL of the Cycloped, an early horse-powered locomotive
6ERrW TIL Scientists managed to capture an image of a newborn planet that was still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.
LWdp TIL The British king or queen has two birthdays; their real birth date and one assigned to them during the summer, to assure better weather for the parade
oRNwR TIL that if we took all the surface water on earth and made it into a sphere, its diameter would only be 860mi or the distance between Salt Lake City Utah and Topeka Kansas.
nxAr TIL a moment is precisely 90 seconds