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TIL reading for 6 minutes a day reduces stress by 68%.

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yYYv TIL that the word “muscle” comes from “musculus” meaning little mouse since a bulging muscle was said to ressemble a little mouse with the tendon as a tail.
jg7R TIL when John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: “I fok horses”, Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: “Pardon?”, Luns replied: “Yes, paarden!”. ‘Fokken’ means 'to breed’, and 'horses’ means 'paarden’ in Dutch
N96Q TIL: In 1985, Weird Al predicted that Luke Skywalker would be coming back in the new series - In his song Yoda.. “But I know that I’ll be coming back some day I’ll be playing this part ‘till I’m old and gray The long-term contract I had to sign Says I’ll be making these movies till the end of time”
eKZ5 TIL The only time the letter Y is a vowel is when your tongue doesn’t touch your palate (roof of mouth). If it does then it is a consonant. examples being yellow = consonant, sky = vowel.
PZ0L TIL Aboriginal Australians, especially in the west-central parts of the continent, have a high frequency of natural blond-to-brown hair, with as many as 90–100% of children having blond hair in some areas.