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TIL that watching a fire can lower your blood pressure

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dlB TIL that Eggplant, Tomatoes, and Potatoes are all closely related and are in the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
b6Lx9 TIL that the Japanese during WW2 evacuated over 5000 troops from Kiska, Alaska in 1943 by using the dense fog to avoid the US Fleet that had come to recapture the island
BrLdW TIL that the music video of the song "Basket Case" from Green day was filmed in a mental asylum called "Agnews Developmental Center." It was also originally filmed in black and white but was later colored in(however the patients of the asylum were not colored in and stay B&W)
J1KGv TIL Admiral Nelson had a specially made fork with a knife attachment that let him eat meals with only one hand after losing his right arm at Santa Cruz in 1797.
6E9WW TIL that verbs comprise approximately 75% of the Cherokee language, as opposed to only 25% of the English language. Verbs must contain at minimum a pronominal prefix, a verb root, an aspect suffix, and a modal suffix.