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TIL 'fight or flight' is actually a description of the male response to acute stress. The female response can be more accurately described as 'tend and befriend'. This has implications for how we think about what stress does to our bodies and how best to cope with and recover from it.

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aZEy TIL that the headphones/audio/electronics company Bose gets their name from their chairman, an Indian-American named Amar Bose. His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary, who fled Bengal to avoid persecution from the British colonial police.
YpYOZ TIL that during WW2 an operation to destroy German heavy water plant (in captured Norway) had to delayed as a cooperative Norwegian caretaker was missing his spectacles, the bomb fuse was lit only after caretaker specs were found (as during the war, new eyeglasses were nearly impossible to obtain).
47Ow TIL of Angel’s Glow, a condition observed in soldiers at the Battle of Shiloh, when their wounds began to glow blue and heal faster. In 2001, a 17yo discovered it was caused by nematode vomit, the beneficial bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens.
OjMe TIL Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling originally recorded the show’s intro by saying there was a sixth dimension. When a confused producer asked why he skipped a dimension, he responded with, “Oh. Aren’t there five?”
rNl1M TIL Mount Erebus is a continually active volcano in Antarctica, and it has an exposed lava lake that is nearly half a kilometer in diameter.