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TIL that your heart rate slows when your face touches water; this is called the mammalian diving reflex.

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vPEpR TIL the 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known as 11M) that occurred March 11th, 2004 resulted in 193 deaths precisely 911 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. The main perpetrators went on to receive combined prison sentences of over 100,000 years.
GdBJ TIL the optimal strategy of finding a good partner is to reject the first 37% of potentials, and then pick the first person better than anyone seen so far
eZXL TIL that Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter about casting Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: TNG. “Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness.” And Gene Roddenberry responded “No, by the 24th century, no one will care.”
1aKxd TIL Motobu Choki. A legendary Karate master who tested his combat prowess by fighting criminals in the Red Light Districts of Japan.
R5we4 TIL about thanatologists, people who study death, dying, loss, and grief from multiple perspectives (medical, physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, and more).