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TIL the term sensory-specific satiety, which is where your body can get “full” of one specific type of food but then get a renewed appetite for another type. The concept explains why you can finish a big meal and not be hungry anymore, but then happily eat dessert.

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VMro0 TIL That termite queens are the longest living insect on the planet. Living on average up to 15 years with some scientists suggesting they can live up to 50-100 years old.
xVdV5 TIL that the Catholic Church issued a Papal Bull in 1567 condeming bullfighting as "cruel and base spectacles of the devil and not of man.", with the organisers and attendees barred from it under the threat of being excommunicated.
GAyrj TIL the IAA mysteriously requested that Yaron Rosenthal bury the discovery of some proto-Aeolic columns, saying, “Yaron, please, you found it, but we know about it. Now forget the whole thing and keep your mouth shut.”
6Ej0J TIL of the Degenerate Art Exhibition that took place in Nazi Germany in 1937 during which 650 paintings, sculptures, and prints were displayed to show that modernism was a conspiracy by people who hated Germany, mainly Jews. Over one million people attended in the first six weeks.
dDDGB TIL starting today in the US, the new suicide and mental health hotline is 988. Goal is to make it easier for people to call for help.