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TIL The VA lobotomized thousands of WW2 veterans that suffered from PTSD.

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JgKl TIL caffeine makes you more open-minded to viewpoints that contradict your own
rNYa4 TIL A dead body left on Mars would dry out and mummify better than Egyptian mummies. The first few stages — algor mortis (body cools), livor mortis (blood pools), and rigor mortis (muscles stiffen) — would still take place. But there would be no other overt signs of decomposition.
grZJb TIL that sloths only move an average of 40 yards (36.576 meters) per day when they are on land and in trees. In the water, they could cover that distance in just under 3 minutes.
0OmR TIL helium molecules are so small that they bleed through the rubber in balloons, causing them to deflate and become floppy, unfloaty & sad.
R5oK7 TIL that Ancient Rome was mostly built without urban planning