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TIL petting a dog can lower your blood pressure.

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OLm6 TIL the memory technique that Sherlock Holmes uses, known as a “Mind Palace”, is a real technique and that most of the people who have mastered this practice are of average intelligence.
VMon0 TIL The Silent Generation (people born 1925-1945) did not produce any United States Presidents
4ljJ TIL Coca-Cola and PepsiCo engineer their soda cans to be exceptionally loud when opened, in hopes of “triggering” others in the nearby vicinity to crave a drink.
R7MM6 TIL about a Brazilian priest who died 10 years ago after trying to break the world record of "longest flight using helium balloons". His last transmission was asking for someone to "just explain how to use his GPS"
grjKL TIL that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has its own dialect of English called Pittsburghese.