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TIL people born in the Pacific Northwest have the cleanest English dialect

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JQbB TIL a recent study found that people tend to be more stressed out at home than at work
GY6EE TIL: The reason that Moths are attracted to light is because prior to man-made artificial lighting, they used the light of the moon to help them navigate, so they mistake lights with light of the moon!
PYWEO TIL that some soldiers' wounds began to glow after the battle of Shiloh, and this glow was associated with better survival rates. It's thought to have been caused by an antibiotic-producing bacteria.
0dZ1A TIL that emergency and civil defense sirens are called such because an early model could make sound underwater, like the seaborn sirens of Greek mythology
oBaKo TIL that the abbreviation a.m stands for "ante meridiem" and p.m means "post meridiem".