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TIL holding a warm drink makes you perceive others you interact with to be “warmer”; i.e. friendlier and more giving.

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xVAd5 TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear
awEk0 TIL After J. F. Kennedy was assissinated, his brain was stored in a locker at the national archives. After 3 years the brain went missing, and has never been seen since
yQR8a TIL that the Moon has a crust, mantle, and core, experiences "moonquakes," and once had active volcanoes
4kRlg TIL: 1) The Latin word for "ants" is "formica". 2) Formic acid is produced by ants. 3) Engineers invented a plastic laminate to replace mica as an electrical insulation and named it Formica ("for mica", get it? ). 4) Despite its name, Formica is not made with formic acid. Whew!
6RMX TIL that NYC Police Officers were formally accused of using an illegal chokehold during an arrest 1,048 times from January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014 … that’s two complaints filed every three days