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

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VM5OD TIL that on April 20, 1979, then President Jimmy Carter, was fishing in the middle of a lake in Georgia when a rabbit swam up to his boat and tried to get in it before he scared the rabbit off.
6EnP8 TIL- James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in ‘68, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, TN 6/10/77, with six other convicts. He was captured 3 days later.
boN9 TIL that when Japanese girls have their first period, the family traditionally celebrates this by eating red-colored rice.
YpEoP TIL the seeds of the Abrus precatorius plant contain the toxin abrin. Abrin is fatal at just 1/75 the dose of ricin. Abrin has an LD50 of 0.56 μg/kg in mice, and Kingsbury lists a toxic dose in humans at 0.00015% body weight, or approximately 0.1 mg for a 150 lb human. One chewed seed can be fatal.
0PRA TIL that as millions of North Koreans go hungry, the country’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown in daily from China (on North Korea’s national airline).