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TIL the average desk-bound employee spends 28 per cent of their professional lives reading and responding to e-mails

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OGEPa TIL humans have a faint glow that’s visible to certain cameras. Humans emit a very low level of light due to metabolic processes, but it’s about 1,000 times weaker than what the human eye can detect.
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lwxG TIL James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the helical structure of DNA, believes that stupidity is a disease and stupid people should be “cured”
KOQk6 TIL The Underground Railroad ran slaves not only to Canada and Northern states but also to Mexico
KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother