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TIL people who are naturally night owls and started waking up early reported better mental health

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8Qxa TIL: All octopuses are venomous! They ‘drill’ a hole through the prey’s shell or exoskeleton using their tough beak and tongue and insert their venomous saliva into the soft interior to kill their prey. There is a special antarctic octopus whose venom works at temperatures that other venom wouldn’t!
bA9Q TIL Stalin had a secret lab to analyze the feces of other foreign leaders for the purpose of constructing psychological portraits. For example, a leader with high levels of tryptophan was assumed to be calm and approachable, while a lack of potassium indicated a nervous disposition.
m1OWR TIL that Volleyball is estimated to be the sport with the second most participants in the world
oBlor TIL of Naked Came the Stranger, a erotic romance novel written as a literary hoax by 24 different authors, each one taking a chapter. Some chapters had to be heavily edited because they were too well-written. Even after it was revealed to be a joke, it reached the NYTimes best-seller list.
7xK7 TIL: That 40% of white men and 50% of black men will be arrested at least once for non traffic offences before the age of 23 in the USA