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TIL social interaction may help reverse food and cigarette cravings triggered by being in social isolation

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BrEbL TIL that the Great Sphinx of Giza is so old that its first restoration dates to 1400 BC, when it was already a thousand years old
9nNM TIL of Stephen Wiltshire who draws whole cities from memory. Here he draws a 30 feet panoramic drawing of Rome after visiting it for the first time and memorising within 5 hours.
JYv9V TIL While the film "Entebbe", which was about an airliner hijacking, was being filmed at Malta International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, an actual hijacked flight, landed at the airport. Scenes from the hostages exiting the Afriqiyah plane were filmed, edited and inserted into the movie.
vgjr TIL: USA Has Been At War 223 Out of 240 Years – Since 1776 i.e. USA has been at peace for in total 17 years since it’s birth.
XEBVj TIL that Kennedy Island in the Solomon Islands is named after President Kennedy who swam there after his boat was sunk by the Japanese in WWII. It was purchased in 2004 for less than a thousand US dollars by someone coincidentally named Kennedy.