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TIL when two people are attracted to each other, their heart rates sync up.

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YWpA TIL a flawed calculation led to inappropriately high social security benefits for those born between 1910 and 1916. The calculation has been fixed, but they still receive these benefits.
xV8bk TIL The International Chopin Piano Competition has been held every five years since 1955. It is one of the few competitions devoted entirely to the works of a single composer
v1Wx TIL that a 15-year-old Canadian executed the first major DDoS crippling popular websites likes Yahoo!, CNN, eBay, Dell and Amazon to show the world how easily a kid can knockout websites, was sentenced to 8 mos juvenile detenction and was FORCED to donate $250 to charity.
W7RYo TIL researchers found that a Medieval Italian man used a knife as a prosthetic limb after the amputation of his right hand. He attached it to his stump with a cap, buckle, and leather straps. The injury healed rather nicely and he managed to live for a very long time afterwards.
x68m7 TIL:Japan's population has decreased by more than 4 million people from its peak (2010:128.06million > 2024: 123.99 million)