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TIL about Psychogenic death, People can die simply because they’ve given up, life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable, according to research

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wLpPM TIL at the time of the dinosaurs, Earth completed one rotation in about 23 hours.
BrkXk TIL Enzo Ferrari (the founder of Ferrari) never visited Rome, never used a lift and never got on a plane. He only left Italy in one occasion.
4Xgeg TIL Georg Gärtner was the last German POW in America. He escaped from a camp in the U.S and took on a new identity. He was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 40 years, until he ‘surrendered’ on the Today Show. He was not charged as an illegal immigrant as he was brought to America against his will
QVDM TIL that during a 2012 study done in eastern Germany, the researchers could not find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God.
gMW18 TIL the chemical Formamide has been proposed as an alternative to water that could support life with alternative biochemistries to that currently found on Earth. It can be formed with hydrogen cyanide and water, has a large dipole moment, and dissolves almost everything that dissolves in water.