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TIL Marilyn Monroe quoted as saying “There is nothing positive about being fat, and there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are, and if we don’t, who will? - I was never fat a day in my life and I never will be”

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KODmJ TIL According to a study, children that have been exposed to family violence show much of the same brain activity as soldiers that have been in combat.
OGZL1 TIL people with Down Syndrome are just as likely to have depression as people without Down Syndrome if not more likely
BrdNK TIL that, despite producing about 38 billion ballpoint pens each year, China had yet to acquire the technology to produce their own pen tips domestically until 2017.
wQkJ TIL China’s only monogamous emperor made the decision to promote monogamy because one of his father’s women murdered his mom. He was hidden because the consort killed the emperor’s heirs in an attempt to gain power. When it was discovered that one had survived, she killed his mom instead.
xVeK0 TIL that there are 7000 languages, and your cognitive language can vastly affect your skills as a human. For instance, some African languages use the direction they are heading (NSEW) as “hello” and literally have no word for left or right. These people stay oriented exponentially better than others