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TIL In China, An Estimated 1,600 White-Collar Workers Are Dying From Overwork A Day

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woYX7 TIL that Antarctica is the continent that had the largest desert.
EVOo TIL that Hershey’s chocolate is flavored with sour-tasting butyric acid, which also gives vomit its aroma. This is why people unaccustomed to American chocolate sometimes compare it to vomit.
neryB Why is it that at the very moment that you should be the most relaxed, you suddenly get seized with the feeling of falling through the air? It's not uncommon. About 70 percent of people regularly face this experience, which is technically known as a hypnic jerk.
neDGW TIL that Male Northern Darwin frogs keep their developing babies inside their mouths.It scoops them up in their mouths and then spits them out when they are fully formed.
LE1m TIL that the “Man in the Iron Mask” was based on an actual prisoner in France who was held there for 34 years. He was never seen without a black velvet mask, and no one knows who he really was or why he always wore the mask.