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TIL research shows that women find it most attractive when they feel unsure about if a guy likes her. Second-most attractive is when she knows that a guy likes her. And least attractive is when she knows that a guy dislikes her.

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WkGQY TIL that during World War 2, over 120 000 Japanese Americans were held in concentration camps around America, most without any reason except their race. It wasn't publicly acknowledged as a human rights violation by the US government until four decades later.
1LDP TIL in 1915 Ford had a “Sociological Department” tasked with ensuring workers lived/consumed in healthy and rational ways, “to better the financial and moral standing of each employee…to instill courage and a desire for health, happiness and prosperity…to take away fear and worry”
JYDpl TIL A WWI soldier injured in France in 1917, went on to marry the nurse that mistook him for a German spy and advised surgeons to take his life on the operating table. He accidentally spoke German to doctors while under a fever, and she took it as spy language. They were married for over 50 years.
70Yb TIL of the Photon Sphere, a spherical region of space where gravity is strong enough that photons are forced to travel in orbits. If you were to stand in this region and look straight ahead you would see the back of your head.
6EQmm TIL that in 2008, Tim McLean was beheaded and cannibalised while riding a bus in Canada. The perpetrator, Vince Li, spent seven years in mental hospital, and was released in 2015, to a group home. He was granted a discharge in 2017. One of the first officers on the scene later committed suicide.