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TIL a study showed that falling in love can boost women's immune system

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deK8 TIL that more than 190 concentration camps were built by the fascist Francoists to imprison and kill Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
Z84VQ TIL of an early-twentieth-century novelist named Robert Walser who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed to a sanatorium and largely forgotten until it was discovered that the tiny, supposedly schizophrenia-induced markings on scraps of paper were actually a novel deciphered in the 1970's