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TIL that when you splash water on your face, your body instantly begins to prepare your body for free diving, slowing your heart rate and pulling blood into vital organs in what scientist call “the master switch of life”

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Yp1Jd TIL 30,000 People disappeared during Argentina’s dirty war. Every Thursday Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo fills with women wearing white scarves and holding signs covered with names of those who were kidnapped by the government.
mxZKO TIL Donald Goerke was tasked with developing a canned pasta that would appeal to children. His team reportedly considered pasta in the shapes of baseballs, cowboys, spacemen and stars before settling on the "O" shape. He became known as "The Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs."
yVKYM TIL that beginning in 1984, NASA administrator James M. Begg, who feared the number 13, stopped the sequential numbering of Space Shuttle flights in order to avoid that number. After STS9, the next shuttle flight was numbered 41-B using an arcane system based on the fiscal year.
m1WYE TIL that Rope Climbing was once an Olympic sport. It was held at 4 Olympics including Paris in 1924 and LA in 1932. In 1904, George Eyser won gold despite having a wooden leg!
6E9QZ TIL the Eric Clapton song "Tears in Heaven" was written for Clapton's four-year-old son who fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment in 1991. He doesn't sing it live because he doesn't feel the loss anymore and he doesn't want those feelings to come back.