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TIL France bans all non-court ordered paternity tests in a desire to “preserve the peace.”

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PYMQn TIL we have three types of tears - basal, reflex and psychic. Psychic tears, the ones we produce when we are sad, have a different chemical make up than the other two and contain a natural painkiller, leucine enkephalin, which is perhaps why we feel better after we cry.
7r8xZ TIL of "The Class the Stars Fell On". Of the 1915 West Point Class 36% attained the rank of General. Members included Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar N. Bradley.
VBJQ0 TIL What the acronym FWIW stands for (For what it’s worth). I always believed it stood for from what I “We-member”. I thought I was missing out on an internet joke or meme.
0wXGp TIL electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them
j6Nbv TIL that in medieval times, surgery was considered too menial a task for physicians to perform; it was instead delegated to barbers.