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TIL a giraffe heart spans 2 feet and weighs 25 pounds

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jNyKX TIL about the power of placebo. In a 2002 study spanning two years, people with osteoarthritis improved equally whether they were given knee surgery or tricked into thinking they received it.
dK69 TIL that it takes just $34,000 to be one of the world’s richest 1%.
QNlrL TIL about the International Affective Picture System (IAPS), a large set of photos with subjects from the mundane (a basket or someone at the beach) to the provocative (burn victims or erotic nudes) used by researchers to elicit and study various emotional responses.
gMgw7 TIL for every bag of Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies and Junior Mints you eat, you're helping fight the war against Communism and the New World Order
8akP8 TIL there is a jigsaw puzzle designer that specifically targets the wealthy with his extremely difficult high-quality wooden puzzles. His name is Steve Richardson but people call him the 'Chief Tormentor' and his puzzle can go as high as $8,000.