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TIL Men spend 7 hours each year 'hiding' in the bathroom
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TIL Elvis Presley probably died of constipation. He died in 1977, while straining on the stool. The autopsy showed Presley had an enlarged "megacolon," horribly impacted with clay like material from a barium X-ray procedure that the King went through four months earlier.
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TIL of Pierre-Simon Laplace, often referred to as the French Newton, he is credited with translating the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus. Laplace was one of the first scientists to propose the existence of black holes and the theory of gravitational collapse.
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TIL that in the 1980's, people living in the borders of forests in India and Bangladesh were issued plastic face masks to wear on the back of their heads. Tiger attacks virtually stopped because the tigers thought people were looking at them when their backs were turned.
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TIL those who respond to things negatively are judged as more intelligent than those who respond positively. As one researcher summarized it, “Only pessimism sounds profound. Optimism sounds superficial.”
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TIL the amount of content on the World Wide Web that can’t be found by regular search engines is several orders of magnitude larger than the content that can be found.