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TIL that faking confidence can positively change your brain chemistry and your life

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4kvK5 TIL that during WWII, the British MI5 used a "double cross system" to turn German spies into double agents, misleading the Germans about the D-Day invasion's location and timing, which contributed significantly to its success.
gMBw7 TIL Kelvin Bryant won the USFL's inaugural MVP award, beating out Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker
VBwgp TIL A Case that could destroy the internet is going before the supreme court soon.
jNGZR TIL that counterintuitively, overall death rates DECREASED during both the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The main cause of this was a lack of motor vehicle accidents, but deaths from heart disease and infectious diseases also went down. Only suicide rates increased, and not by much.
p8gjp TIL that in the 1800s, chemists working with willow bark extracts discovered that salicylic acid is responsible for the analgesic (pain-reducing) and antipryretic (fever-reducing) effects. In 1893, a German chemist converted salicylic acid to its less acidic ester, know as Asprin.