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TIL that watching a fire can lower your blood pressure

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4XpWJ TIL that the idea of wooden stakes to kill vampires actually came from the use of wooden stakes to pin the dead down so they couldn’t escape the coffin. A measure taken during the New England vampire panic among other places. Though staked in the chest it had nothing to do with piercing the heart.
eVn TIL that Kodak invented the first digital camera, then went bankrupt because they didn’t convert to digital
R7DW7 TIL: July 1st is Bobby Bonilla Day, the day in which the New York Mets pay Bobby Bonilla, a man who last played for them in 1999, $1.19 million until the year 2035
Elw0 TIL there is a charity that pays $300 to drug addicts if they get sterilized
LQDNv TIL there was an olympic wrestling gold medal match that lasted for more than 9 hours, in the 1912 light heavyweight division. Since the fight was declared a draw and the gold medalist was required to have defeated his opponent, no gold medals were awarded and both finalists received silver instead.