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TIL Gambling addicts get similar amounts of dopamine when they lose compared to winning

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b6JEj TIL that Gavrilo Princip, the assassin that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand which triggered WW1, didn't get a death sentence nor a life sentence, but only 20 years. But he died in prison 3 years into his sentence anyways.
GY8jE TIL that on August 2, 1922, when Alexander Graham Bell died, every phone in North America was turned off to pay respects to him.
eDDL TIL the first ‘mooning’ in recorded history was 66 AD, where a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem, causing a riot, an over-response by the Roman military, and the death of thousands
yQnYJ TIL: Canada has a desert - Columbia Plateau
jNJ9R TIL there are more Subways in the US than McDonald’s and Starbucks... combined.