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TIL that you are taller in the morning than you are at night. While we are lying down in a resting position, the spine is said to “spread out” or decompress, so when we wake in the morning we are taller after lying in bed all night.

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5YyWD TIL between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Catholic church exhumed skeletons from catacombs and decorated them with gold and precious stones to serve as relics for saints. While some of the corpses may have been early martyrs, most actually did not belong to anybody with religious significance.
R0vw TIL There was an Attorney General that was a sole hold-out that refused to go along with a settlement that would shield the banks from the mortgage fiasco lawsuits. NY States Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman.
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eL6E TIL Soldiers in the U.S. military’s psychological warfare department (PSYOPS) used loudspeakers to tempt enemy fighters in Afghanistan into battles they couldn’t win by calling them,”lady men” and “cowardly dogs” and also air dropped propaganda leaflets.