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TIL How crocodile tears work

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EXaX TIL a 3-year-old pit bull won the title of mayor for the fourth time, and beat a cat, chicken, donkey and a little boy.
0MxL TIL that a protein called TRPM8 is what causes your brain to think something is colder than it is after eating something with mint.
6DkX TIL in 2014, US law enforcement took $4.5 billion from citizens who were never charged with a crime; more than US burglars stole in the same year
KOE4a TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.
WkwOo TIL 3–15% of alcoholics commit suicide, and over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol or drug dependence, due to alcohol causing physiological distortion of brain chemistry, as well as social isolation.