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TIL not all people have an internal monologue and people with them have stronger mental visual to accompany their thoughts.

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mj5o TIL “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness”: Despite the the improvement in the lives of women over the past 35 years, measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. Women from the 1970s reported higher happiness than men.
E19Kp TIL a beer called ‘Snake Venom’ by Scottish brewery Brewmeister is the world’s strongest beer. It contains a massive 67.5% alcohol by volume. (Vodka, in comparison, is typically 80 proof, or 40% alcohol).
ePXb TIL that as the Titanic sank, someone unlocked the kennels holding all the passengers’ pet dogs, “leading to the surreal sight of a pack of excited dogs racing up and down the slanting deck as the ship went down.”
xEQg TIL “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine
YQ0W Today I learned many Korean folk tales begin “Back when tigers used to smoke…”