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TIL we experience withdrawal symptoms at the end of a love affair that mirror chemical addiction

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ANaVa TIL most illustrations of the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down show Tower Bridge instead.
4lxN TIL that there is a boiling river, deep in the Amazon, that was only formally documented in scientific literature in 2011 despite being known by locals for much, much longer
8aOEG TIL, if you were able to travel from the Earth to a distance of 8.3 BILLION Light Years, you would cross the Cosmic Point of No Return, where you would NEVER be able to make it back to Earth, even if you somehow traveled the speed of light.
MMwB TIL Cats cannot taste sweetness.
Lkp50 TIL Chick-fil-A makes more per restaurant than McDonald's, Starbucks and Subway combined