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TIL that today’s children could have shorter average life spans than their parents, because so many suffer from obesity.

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N7MOb TIL levels of oxytocin (the trust hormone) are boosted in both the human and the dog when both make eye contact
wLx5P TIL that in this famous photo of a man being executed in the Vietnam War, both the executioner and the executed have the exact same Family name: Nguyễn. The reason for the brutal summary execution was because he had slit the throats of a military leader and his entire family, all also named Nguyễn.
Kpe4 TIL there’s a mental illness called Cotard Delusion in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are already dead, putrefying or don’t exist.
9wVyX TIL Ruth Snyder was executed by electric chair on January 12, 1928. She was secretly photographed mid-execution, which became the first photo of an execution by electric chair printed in media.
VMvKB TIL There is a school of thought that credits legendary Czech author Franz Kafka with the development of the civilian hard hat.