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'Gut feelings' are as real as they feel They're emotionally intuitive signals transmitted from your gut to your brain via the vagus nerve. #science

Roughly 75% of high school students surveyed say they are bored, tired, or stressed every day in class. #knowledge

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Spoiler alert: it gets better. The distress will soon trade places with delight. Emptiness with exhilaration. Boredom with bliss. And, loneliness with love. #motivation

Not getting enough sleep can affect your metabolism, causing you to feel hungrier and less full after eating. #health

Moths can confuse the ultrasound of bats by jiggling their sex organs. #animals

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"Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn #quotes

​​What is the concept behind Leap Year? The solar year is not exactly 365 days. It is 365.24219 days. That means it is almost a quarter of a day longer than our standard 365 day calendar. Over time, that adds up. After four years, the calendar would be off by almost a full day. After 120 years, the calendar would be off by a month. Since one of the primary uses of a calendar is to help people know when to plant their crops, that ever increasing error is problematic. That’s why we have leap years - to correct for that error. Julius Caesar, in 45 B.C., implemented the practice of adding a leap day to the calendar every four years. In the short term, this addressed the problem, but our story doesn’t end here. The solar year is 365.24219 days long, not the 365.25 days that the leap year concept was built to address. The difference between those two numbers equates to about eleven minutes per year or a full day every 128 years. By the time of Pope Gregory in 1582, this error had built up considerably. Gregory reformatted the calendar, removing ten days from one year to get back in sync and then redefining the use of leap years to add the following rule: centennial years (e.g. 1800, 1900, 2000) are not to be leap years unless they are evenly divisible by 400. That correction is based upon a solar year length of 365.2425 days. That’s much better, but still slightly different than 365.24219 and that difference of 0.00031 days means that after about three thousand years, the Gregorian calendar will be off by a day.

Canada still has 91% of the forest coverage that existed at the start of European settlement. #countries

men who eat nuts tend to have higher quality sperm. #sexfact

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Notice the friends who are secretly competing with you. They will hold back on excitement when you share good news, clap softly when you win, and try to one-up you while keeping tabs on you. They might discredit, downplay and degrade you in front of others. #thoughts

Happiness from giving lasts longer than happiness from receiving. Why don't you try😉?? #knowledge

LeBron James turned down a $10 million offer from Reebok when he was an 18-year-old high school student, saying that Nike or Adidas could potentially offer him more Less than a year later, he signed with Nike for $90 million. #people

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"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney #quotes

People with insecure attachment styles tend to develop stronger emotional bonds with pets. #psychology

Rich people in China sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences The practice is called "ding zui," meaning "substitute criminal" #countries

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