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TIL that getting goosebumps triggers new hair growth. They cause hair to rise in the short term and trigger more hair growth in the long term.

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VMnJm TIL that following their successful Billion Tree Tsunami campaign in 2017 to plant 1 billion trees, Pakistan launched the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami campaign, vowing to plant 10 billion trees in the next 5 years
eoa5 TIL in a 2014 study of 3,000 married couples, Emory University discovered that couples who spent more than $20K on their wedding are roughly 46% more likely to get divorced than couples who spent $5-10K.
j6yrR TIL Linda Guillory holds the world record for both: the largest collection of playable gaming systems with 2,430 and the largest collection of LCD gaming systems with 1,599.
WkgPX TIL the last English knight to be publicly degraded (stripped of knighthood) was Francis Mitchell in 1628. He’d committed extortion. His spurs were broken and thrown out, his belt cut, and his sword broken over his head. He was called "no longer a Knight but Knave" and led to the Tower of London.
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye