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TIL that playing games like Tetris immediately following a traumatic event can greatly decrease the chances of suffering intrusive flashbacks of the incident.

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9YE5B TIL about Motte and Bailey Fallacy, where the arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, they insist that they are only advancing the more modest position.
6EyPQ TIL that Hughes engineers swung a satellite around the Moon and approached earth from a 'stealthy' direction, "downwards from the Moon rather than up from the ground, the way we typically think of missile launches by aggressor nations."
6EPDw TIL Charles Darwin brought back a 5 year old tortoise named Harriet from Galapogas island that would later be owned by Steve Irwin. Harriet died in 2006 aged 176.
J17a8 TIL A German horse was taught math.. except it was later found that the horse had learnt to recognise human reactions to its answers and was just "counting up to the answer" until it got the right reaction
16Bjd TIL, the US implemented the ZIP Code in 1963 to allow mail sorting methods to be faster and eventually be automated