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E1jvp TIL A UK study found that 1 in 6 deaths is caused by a 9–5 office lifestyle. Sitting for prolonged periods of can make you twice as likely to die prematurely
epPKJ TIL about Joachim-Raphael Boronali, an Italian painter touted by Roland Dorgelès as a pioneer of expressionism, who turned out to be a donkey named Lolo. Dorgelès would paint some blocks on canvas, then tie a brush to Lolo's tail to make scribbles. Dorgelès did this as a take-that to expressionism.
rRy1o TIL Operation Condor was a United States-backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, officially and formally implemented in November 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.
nXd TIL that humans can reliably identify, by smell, blood relatives - but not husbands or wives. Preadolescent children can detect their full siblings but not half-siblings or step-siblings.
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