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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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JYbem TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. won a Grammy at the 13th Grammy Awards in 1971. That is one more than Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj.
GY8DE TIL about the wind phone (Kaze no Denwa), a telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones as a way to process their grief.
ZnYD TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy once worked at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Center and was described by co-workers as being kind, solicitous and empathetic.
NwdN TIL Harry S. Truman created the"Truman Committee" in 1941 to investigate war profiteers and abuse of taxpayer’s money during WWII. Until he assumed office in 1945, Truman had no idea that the money was funding a secret weapon - The Manhattan Project.
M7Q7W TIL Singapore was the first country to introduce an electronic toll collection scheme to manage traffic congestion by the way of road pricing in 1975. It has since been introduced in other cities in the world such as in London and Stockholm and has been proposed for New York City and San Francisco.