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TIL That I Wouldn't Notice if My Calculator Was Lying to Me

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G4W1 TIL You urinate more when you’re cold because of an increase in your arterial blood pressure caused by blood being taken away from your extremities and crammed in your core. Your kidneys shed fluid to try and stabilise it.
NaL8 TIL That psychologists conducted a study in which experimenters asked total strangers “Would you go to bed with me tonight?” 75% of men said yes. Every single woman said no.
16XV7 TIL that early relatives of Hemp, Hops, and Cannabis originated from the Late Cretaceous
6vZm TIL that when setting up the Jeopardy! challenge involving the Watson supercomputer, IBM repeatedly expressed concerns that clue writers would exploit cognitive deficiencies in order to turn the show into a sort of Turing test. A neutral third party had to be brought in to select the questions.
N7koN TIL there’s even a crater on the moon named after a Confederate officer.