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TIL that study published in Cell in 2014 shows that fasting for 3 days triggers stem cell regeneration in your body and repairs your immune system which in turn can help you live longer and healthier.

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d8Or8 TIL When the # and * keys were first put on phones they had no purpose whatsoever and were only included because touch tone phones could create up to twelve tones.
VBkjD TIL: In 1998, American, British and Canadian air forces all failed to shoot down a rogue weather balloon from Canada. The balloon was 25 storeys high and as wide as several football pitches. Two CF-18 fighters fired more than 1,000 rounds into it off the coast of Newfoundland.
woX7W TIL China has the most skyscrapers in the world. It has so many in fact that the next 13 countries combined still have less skyscrapers than China.
lo6na TIL that Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, served as an attache for Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. He tipped off the Danes about the Germans' plan to deport the Jewish population in 1943 and arranged for their reception in Sweden, rescuing over 95% of Denmark's Jewish population.
X8aQ TIL: Studies show that wealthy people are less likely to recognize emotions in others and report feeling less compassion for others than their poorer counterparts