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TIL that Iceland gets 100% of its energy from renewable sources.

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KY99G TIL many stories were made by our ancestors to explain the Aurora borealis in the skies. In Greenland, people held the bittersweet belief that the lights were the spirits of babies who had died in childbirth, dancing across the sky.
Y8bv TIL a Harvard Researcher found rolling a pair of dice was as predictive of your future income as your college GPA is.
6904W TIL frogs use their eyeballs to help swallow food “The eyes assist in the swallowing of food as they can be retracted through holes in the skull and help push food down the throat”
YGWB TIL that “crab mentality” describes selfish, short-sighted thinking best described by the phrase “if I can’t have it, neither can you.”
4XJMR TIL 'Catastrophizing'. A cognitive distortion that prompts people to jump to the worst possible conclusion after a minor setback. When a situation is upsetting but safe, they still feel like they are in the midst of a huge crisis. Getting enough sleep can also help keep 'catastrophizing' in check.