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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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Nb76 TIL that there is an island town in Michigan that has banned motor vehicles except for snowmobiles and emergency vehicles. In the summer it’s a tourist attraction, but in the winter it has a population of 500 and is unreachable without a plane until the ice bridge forms.
OGOZX TIL about Dipendra, the 2nd to last King of Nepal, who spent the entirety of his reign in a coma.
JY0Qv TIL that the United States coexisted with the Holy Roman Empire for thirty years until its dissolution in 1806.
QJeD6 TIL One of the attractions of the port city Liepaja( Latvia ) is a night in jail. The haunting Karosta district offers accommodation in the old military lockup complete with Soviet-style treatment.
Ay8n TIL it is “required” by the FDIC for financial institution employees to take two weeks consecutive vacation every year to help uncover cases of fraud. The logic being that someone else must do your work for 2 weeks and said employee will be unable to cover up their work for that length of time.