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TIL that people with brain cancer survive significantly longer if they're also taking Prozac.

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M7GYW TIL that in ancient Rome, it was common to collect the blood of fallen gladiators in the arena and consume it. It was believed that drinking the blood provided vital strength and served as an effective medicine for various ailments like epilepsy and infertility.
b9wB4 TIL Ronald Reagan holds the record for both the coldest Inauguration (7 degrees) and the record for the warmest Inaguration (55 degrees)
x6lA0 TIL that some metro stations in Bucharest have very narrow platforms, because Elena Ceausescu (the wife of Nicolae Ceausescu) wanted less stations in the metroline saying: "youth and working class is starting to get fat, so they need to walk more", so the workers had built those stations in secret.
rn6M TIL Heme is the iron-containing part of hemoglobin that binds oxygen in your blood. If you replace the iron atom in heme with magnesium, you get another biologically important family of compounds - chlorophyll.
M6bb TIL the U.S. government spent years holding fake arrival ceremonies honoring the return of American soldiers killed in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea to American soil, but the planes were actually empty. The ceremonies were known by staff as “The Big Lie.”