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TIL man’s walking pace slows by 7% for wives and girlfriends but not for other women, and increases if walking with another man.

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rNM94 TIL the Guinness World Record for most birthdays in one day belongs to a Pakistani family, with every member having been born on August 1st; including the mother and father.
lWJa TIL That the oldest cat to ever live was a female cat called Creme Puff. She lived to a staggering 38 years and 3 months, equivalent to a human living to the age of 170 years.
P15lJ TIL in 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. invented & first demonstrated a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light which was the forerunner of the first generation of commercial LEDs. In addition, 10 of his 60 former doctoral students have since developed new uses for LED technology.
Y7YRB TIL that Brazil once marooned almost 1,000 political prisoners in a jungle exile called Clevelândia (1924-26); forced labor, malaria and dysentery killed about half of them, and press censorship kept the disaster hidden until the survivors limped home.
kJrN5 Til a micro ecosystem consisting of seeds and insect eggs was sent to the Moon by Chinese scientists. A cotton plant sprouted, but then it died and the experiment ended.