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TIL you can in fact die of a ‘broken heart.’
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TIL If you totally sleep-deprive a white-crowned sparrow in the laboratory during the migratory period of the year, it suffers virtually no ill effects whatsoever. The US government continues to have a vested interest in this sparrow: their hope for developing a 24-hour soldier.
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TIL the most accurate Moon Phase wrist watch can accurately track the moon’s phase for the next 2,060,757 years - so accurate that by the time you’d need to adjust it by a day, an Earth day would be 37 seconds longer and all calculations would be null and void. Plus you’d be dead.
e0y75
TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
xKew
TIL that the President of France is also the Co-Prince of Andorra. Therefore, Andorra is the only country in the world that has a democratically elected monarch.
QJGk
TIL the Dalek voice in Doctor Who (2005) is recorded through a custom analog ring modulator; the BBC were unable to reproduce the original effect digitally.