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TIL about Drowning Machine dams

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7rQKX TIL Tears contain a natural painkiller leucine-enkephalin which reduces pain and improves mood
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J198m TIL about the Gouzenko Affair,in which GRU Agent Igor Gouzenko,assigned to the Soviet embassy in Canada, attempted to defect in September 1945. Despite offering evidence of Soviet espionage in the west, several Canadian officials, including Prime Minister King were initially reluctant to accept him.
9lMG TIL that you can survive in space without a spacesuit for around 2 minutes, and the thing that kills you isn’t the change in pressure, it’s simply the lack of oxygen.
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