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TIL it actually takes more muscle to smile than to frown

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1MPr TIL the stomach doesn’t digest itself because the cells are created faster then they can be destroyed
6EPRl TIL Animal rescue organisations in the US are placing "unadoptable" cats with businesses as natural pest control. In many cases, this positive socialization leads to the cats becoming affectionate permanent employees of the companies.
6ENGl TIL of Paul Alexander, one of the last few Polio survivors. He's confined to an Iron Lung and paralyzed from the neck down, yet managed to graduate from law school and wrote his memoir using only his mouth.
e099D TIL that the European Organization for Nuclear Research has animal shelter for computer mice.
OGK1g TIL Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717 – 1 February 1747) was a Dutch writer, Calvinist clergyman and missionary best known for being the first individual of African descent to be ordained as a minister in an established Protestant church and for his writings on slavery