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TIL that high levels of dopamine and a related hormone, norepinephrine, are released during attraction. These chemicals make us giddy, energetic, and euphoric, even leading to decreased appetite and insomnia – which means you actually can be so “in love” that you can’t eat and can’t sleep.

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nePOB TIL that since 2013 starfishes in the Pacific Ocean have been going through a deadly plague/epidemic. The disease is called Sea Star Wasting Disease which seems to be associated with a virus. It causes the starfishes to tear their limbs apart and eventually leads to their deaths.
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
1aXMr TIL of Betty Ong, a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Ong notified the American Airlines ground crew of the hijacking, staying on the telephone for 25 minutes and relaying vital information that eventually led to the closing of airspace by the FAA for the first time in history.
kOrLg TIL Hachikō the Akita dog became famous in the 1920s for meeting his master every day at a railway station. He continued to make the journey nine years after his owner's death, and is held up in Japanese culture as an example of loyalty and fidelity.