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TIL that heartbreak can cause physical discomfort and nausea, likely due to our "social-attachment system" triggering the "pain system" to maintain close social bonds, leading to distress when those bonds are broken.

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W7VeB TIL that the rapper Immortal Technique went to high school with Lin-Manuel Miranda and used to bully him.
kkWW TIL The bible says its required to cancel all debts after 7 years.
GAG1j TIL The term Ιesbian comes from an ancient greek island called Lesbos. Sappho was a poet and a playwright but her works were destroyed in the fire that burned down the Library of Alexandria. She is believed to be the earliest documented gạy or bisexuaΙ woman and was born in 615 BC.
oBblY Today I learned that in America, a M-134 (commonly referred to as a Mini-gun, due to the small caliber relative to its weapon type) can be legally owned by a civilian. And 11 of them are. And that a traditional Gatling gun isn’t considered a machine gun so it can also be owned completely legally.
V9JQ TIL: The U.S bought Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 for $7.2million ($122million today). Since 1959 Alaska has produced $157billion worth of oil. That’s a return of nearly 130,000%!