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TIL that the narrative that Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign is not true, because Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century
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Keep your cats inside for the sake of their health and local ecosystem: cameras recorded what cats preyed on and demonstrated how they overlapped with native wildlife, which helped researchers understand why cats and other wildlife are present in some areas, but absent from others
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New research suggests that how humans dart their eyes may reveal valuable information about how they make decisions: “We discovered an accessible measurement that will tell you, in only a few seconds, not just what you prefer but how much you prefer it,”
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Researchers developed a way to monitor blood pressure (with 90% accuracy), using artificial intelligence and a camera, by filming a person from a short distance for 10 seconds and extracting cardiac signals from two regions in the forehead
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Baby girls babble their way to bigger vocabularies sooner than baby boys, but it’s not because parents talk to them more, instead parents appear to talk more to young children who themselves are already talking, regardless of their gende
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Study in fruit flies found that the most promising anti-ageing drug rapamycin prolongs the lifespan, and the development of age-related pathological changes in the gut, of female fruit flies, but not in males. Concluding that the sex is a crucial factor in the effectiveness of anti-ageing drugs
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