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contagious yawning is your brain running an empathy test on everyone around you without telling you. your mirror neurons pull a yawn out of you when someone near you yawns as a way of syncing you to that person and research shows you catch yawns significantly more from people you are emotionally close to than from strangers. researchers at baylor university found a direct measurable link between psychopathic traits and yawn immunity because the empathy circuit just does not fire the same way. think about who came to mind when you heard that

are you or someone you love a psychopath?

everything is made of atoms and atoms have electrons that repel each other before they ever make contact. what you feel when you touch something is not actual contact. it is your brain translating an electromagnetic force into a sensation because the alternative is admitting you are floating above every surface you have ever been on. which you are. right now. the feeling of touch is something your nervous system invented for you and it has been doing it your entire life

did you know the historical facts about where the retirement age came from?

time literally moves faster the higher up you are from the ground. einstein figured this out in 1915 from pure math and a hundred years later its quietly built into every gps satellite keeping your maps accurate. without the correction your navigation would be wrong by 7 miles every single day. time dilation is real, its been measured, and its running your phone right now

time dilation means your head ages faster than your feet

turns out those old mesothelioma commercials have lore

PSA: Tapeworms are bad.

in the early 1900s you could buy tapeworm eggs as a weight loss pill from mainstream retailers. the tapeworm would hatch inside you and eat. the side effects included meningitis and organ failure because the tapeworms moved wherever they wanted inside your body. the removal procedure frequently choked patients to death. at the same time sears was selling arsenic wafers for clear skin. both were legal. no prescription required. the fda barely existed. some of this was less than 120 years ago.