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TIL - The Rabbit Effect - Phyiscal and verbal kindness and love is scientifically proven to improve health.

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xVmPo TIL: That sleep deprivation played a huge role in major world disasters such as Chernobyl (where engineers worked for 13 hrs), and The Challenger Explosion (certain managers involved only slept for two hrs).
oRKMr TIL that between 2 and 1 billion years ago, the duration of a day was 19 hours. Then, the day's length started to increase by 2 milliseconds per Earth's revolution due to the Moon's tidal force.
QMAk TIL that Sardines is not a name for any kind of fish. It only refers to small fishes packed in cans in water/sauces.
vP8oK TIL there's a stinging tree called Gympie Gympie that has a toxin so excruciating it's driven people and animals to suicide. It feels like being doused in hot acid and electrocuted.
8OBV TIL that dozens of well-connected Saudis, including relatives of Osama Bin Laden, left the USA a few days after 9/11, when most flights were still grounded. They left with the personal approval of top White House officials.