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TIL Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to

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dpOB TIL one of Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme victims was a professor that wrote a book on gullibility and scams.
QNxQ6 TIL that the CPR doll is modeled after a real person. Her name was L'Inconnue de la Seine and she drowned in a river near Paris. She has come to be known as “the most kissed face in the world”.
we1o TIL Germany granted Vladimir Lenin safe passage back to Russia via armored train knowing of his plans to begin the revolution and remove Russia from World War 1. Lenin succeeded and Russia was no longer a threat to the Germans. This could be one of the best military decisions ever made.
QNjEd TIL In the mid-1950s Francis LeRoy Henning of Erial, New Jersey minted what is now known as the “Henning” Nickel. He made counterfeit nickels dated 1939, 1944, 1946, 1947 and 1953.
eYAD TIL That the movie Night at the Museum was based on an acid trip one of the authors had (26:49)