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TIL - The British Proposed a Chicken-Heated Nuclear Bomb

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EgKgP TIL a 2013 study found that the act of chopping down trees results in greater increases in testosterone than does a directly competitive activity such a soccer. Chopping down trees saw an increase of 46.8%, whereas, soccer only saw an increase of 30.1%.
e0P9g TIL that in a Roman hospital doctors used to hide Jews from Nazi troops by putting them in quarantine for the extremely contagious "K syndrome". The syndrome didn't actually exist, but the soldiers wouldn't dare enter these rooms.
epVKn TIL that music helps people with their focus perinatal stress and other psychological discoordination in their life
d8p68 TIL: Alpha Centauri ( α Cen) is the closest star system to Earth's Solar System at about 4.37 light-years or 25,600,000,000,000 miles (40,130,000,000,000 km) away from from the Sun. The flight to Alpha Centauri with the speed of Apollo 11 will take us over 100,000 years to complete.
M488 TIL that reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed the entire geography of the park: as elk were displaced, saplings that would have been eaten by elk were spared, riverbank erosion was brought under control, and streams and rivers shifted their courses.