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TIL girls can get so stressed it actually stops our ovulation and we skip a period.

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erB6 TIL oxygen deprivation worsens depression, which has caused Colorado Springs, CO (with its high altitude) to become the second most suicidal city in the U.S.
ad7y TIL that Samuel Morse missed his wifes death and burial because of slow communication, thus he began inventing the single-wire telegraph and morse code
nQRo TIL Former newspaper editor of The Sun, Kelvin Mackenzie, published a story alleging Elton John had the voiceboxes of his own guard dogs removed. He was proven wrong when a reporter went round to check and the dogs barked at him.
OGJJa TIL Kiviak is a traditional food from Greenland that is made of little seabird packed and fermented in a seal skin. Up to 500 whole birds, beaks and feathers included, are packed into the seal skin and then hidden in a heap of stones and left to ferment over the course of three months.
5Y5lD TIL a Canadian hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadelphia having travelled peacefully around Canada for 26 days.