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TIL Giving yourself a hug can reduce physical pain, partially because it confuses the brain into thinking that the information from right side of the body is coming from the nervous system on the left side of the body

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b9j7Q TIL Some Wasps Lay Eggs in Different Kinds of Harmful Insects So As Not to Spread and Inflict More Damage
Wk8b4 TIL Dmitry Glukhovsky wrote the novel 'Metro 2033' when he was 18. He published the novel on his website available for free. This eventually led to a video game deal with 4A Games & a comic deal with Dark Horse comics.
11mV TIL when, sitting right next to Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson was asked if he would’ve won in a fight against Ali in his prime he said “I’m vain - I know i’m great but in this situation every head must bow, every tongue must confess, this is the greatest of all time”.
4bPw TIL during WWII, prisoners in a Russian gulag escaped into the Siberian wilderness, walked hundreds of kilometers through blinding snow to Lake Baikal, crossed the Mongolian border, traversed the Gobi desert and hiked across the Himalayas to reach freedom in India. 4000 km… entirely on foot.
wLpw8 TIL that pinball was illegal in NYC for over 30 years