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TIL that after a great emotional shock, you can die suddenly due to an abnormal hreat rhythm. You can die from a broken heart.

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WkGk8 TIL there's a village in India where snakes are family. Cobras roam freely and are worshipped with a place dedicated in every house where they can come to chill, and are also known to frequent schools, with not a single snake-bite case reported.
b6QZj TIL that In 1947, engineers working on the Mark II computer at Harvard University found a moth stuck in one of the components. They taped the insect in their logbook and labeled it "first actual case of bug being found." The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of programming.
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