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TIL Loneliness has a greater chance of causing premature death than obesity.

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GYw97 TIL the Portuguese, who began the Atlantic Slave Trade, first began kidnapping west Africans and taking the enslaved back to Europe as early as the 15th century.
R5La1 TIL the "Pauli effect" is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to mysteriously break in the presence of certain people. The effect is named after Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose presence was associated with spontaneous mechanical failure throughout his career.
p8nYe TIL: Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first -- and only -- person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.
xVQak TIL that Rep. John Lewis gave one hell of a speech at the 1963 march on Washington
Bgdjx TIL Around 800 Japanese soldiers may have been eaten by Saltwater Crocodiles during a battle in WW2