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TIL that according to research, our love for shiny things comes from an evolutionary instinct to seek out water

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P1MBg TIL that the United States is currently under 42 different national emergencies, one of which dates from 1979.
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v1p1R TIL of Alexis Carrel, a surgeon who pioneered vascular sutures after other doctors claimed the French president Sadi Carnot could not have been saved after being assassinated with a knife
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