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TIL that a yawn is such an empathetic behavior that reading about yawning will make 55% of people yawn just from reading it.

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N1jJ TIL that when the Paracutin volcano was born, it emerged so quickly that it pushed up the ground beneath people. Within 24 hours, it was 15 stories high, and by the end of the week it was the height of the Great Pyramids.
KYBdB TIL that in 1538, King Henry VIII of England demolished the entire village of Cuddington in Surrey to build Nonsuch Palace. The palace had yet to be completed when Henry VIII died in 1547, and was sold to and finished by Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel in 1556.
pYvNN TIL about the Bechdel test. It tries to measure the representation of women in film/fiction by asking if at least two women talk to each other about something other than a man.
yw8X TIL the International Space station is the size of a football field and can be spotted by night, as it is the third brightest object in the sky and orbits around the world every 92 minutes.
xEVw TIL, for women, smelling a newborn baby feels as good as drugs do to addicts, or cheeseburgers do to those just breaking a fast