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TIL you can in fact die of a ‘broken heart.’

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d8pm9 TIL that my local library has a "library of things" including a Singer sewing machine, GoPro, SNES console, air fryer, Insta-Pot, camping tent, metal detector, and so many boards games and tools!
PYoMw TIL Richard Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard , but wasn’t able to attend because his family lacked the money for him to travel there and to sustain his Room & Board .
Br1oW TIL that the Declaration of Independence states that it is the duty & right of people to overthrow a government/leadership that acts against the common interests of the people or/and threatens the safety of the people.
EgoJd TIL The famous zodiac ceiling design, depicting over 2500 stars, at Grand Central Station was accidentally painted on backward.
N7onP TIL that a Franciscan friar once argued that Paul the Apostle had only condemned sodomy in his epistles because Paul enjoyed sodomy and wanted to keep the practice to himself. The friar was executed for his views in 1550.