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TIL That when people in love stare into each other’s eyes, their heartbeats synchronize

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9PmQ TIL there is an area in Canada with less gravity than the rest of the Earth
GrjJ TIL that the replacement for ivory billiard balls were ones made from nitrocellulose, which occasionally exploded on impact with another ball. A bar owner wrote to the inventor saying that they didn’t bother him much but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound
X0948 TIL that Archimedes supposedly invented a giant lens that focused the power of the sun to burn enemy Greek ships
wLkP TIL there is a brand of cigarettes designed explicitly for smuggling.
Br8By TIL about Aleksey Maresyev, a pilot who was shot down in Nazi territory, lost the use of his legs, and crawled for eighteen days before returning to Soviet territory. His legs were then amputated. Nevertheless, within a year he was flying again on prosthetic legs.