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TIL South Korean women are nearly 8 inches (~20cm) taller today than 100 years ago

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ddPZ TIL when Abraham Lincoln’s brother-in-law Confederate General Benjamin Helm was killed in battle in 1863, Lincoln and his wife went into private mourning at the White House to avoid criticism. The widowed Emilie Todd Helm was granted safe passage to the White House.
vPmV7 TIL that Malibu is hit by a large wildfire approximately every 2.5 years.
6E4v7 TIL When researchers blocked AMPA-receptor removal in rats, they found that the rats were prevented from forgetting the locations of objects. To forget, it seemed that the rat brain had to proactively destroy connections at the synapse. Forgetting is not a failure of memory, but a function of it.
E1WDP TIL Horses don't actually sleep standing up; rather they nap standing up, and sleep laying down.
ANpgg TIL that rents have been rising so much because of a software called YieldStar, which tells landlords the maximum they can raise the rent and profit