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TIL all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats independent of lifespan, about 1 billion.

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rPjW TIL that New England is the least religious region of the US, despite its Puritan past
x6ew1 TIL about the ‘My Way Killings’, in which 12 people in the Philippines were killed due arguments around karaoke performances of the Frank Sinatra song. People in the Philippines now avoid the song in karaoke bars.
grANW TIL Dina Sanichar was raised by wolves in the Uttar Pradesh jungle in India until hunters found him in 1867 at the age of 6. He never learned to interact with another human being.
j5Gp TIL The United States Congress only has a job approval rating of around 15%, but Congressional incumbents are re-elected at a rate of roughly 95%
pDYA TIL that Einstein was rewarded Nobel Prize not for his works with relativity, but for discovery of photoelectric effect.