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

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Bg0jW TIL That the "drumsticks" that come with wings are still chicken wings and arent actually drumsticks. Theyre just the upper part of the wing.
b97A9 TIL the green flash at the end of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" is based on a real optical phenomenon
kJ5Og TIL that Karl Dönitz, the man who succeeded Hitler and was the last leader of Nazi Germany, survived his post-war prison sentence of only ten years and only died in 1980. He denied any wrongdoing for the rest of his life.
lo891 TIL: It has been estimated that 80% of all Marriages in Human History have been between 1st and 2nd Cousins.
QJnpL TIL that mosquitos can pause & resume their development lifecycle stages egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult. While each of these stages typically last 5 - 14 days, if conditions are unfavourable (heat, cold etc), they can delay the transition by even a year by going into diapause (dormant stage)