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TIL Part of the reason we sigh is because the alveoli in the lungs collapse with disuse, and a sigh pops them back open by taking in more air. Humans average about 12 sighs an hour, and without them our lungs would fail.

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J1dBj TIL that in sociology, there's the notion of the "third place". The 1st place is your home. The 2nd place is your workplace and the 3rd place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place").
aVwb TIL that Nestle paid $2,238 for 600 million litres of water at one Ontario well in 2010, or 0.0000004 cents a litre.
1WMO TIL The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan was intended for Kokura, but the pilot’s view of the target in Kokura was obscured by a cloud.
nR4b TIL that the girl in the red coat from Schindler’s List was told by Spielberg to not watch the film until she was 18. She watched it at 11 and was traumatized. She watched it again at 18 and understood “Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film.”
x6MM7 TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days