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BrJrL TIL MMA fighter Ronda Rousey is of English, Polish, Trinidadian & Venezuelan descent. Her Trinidadian great-grandfather was one of the first black doctors in Canada & her English-American mother holds a PhD & won the World Judo Championship in 1984.
7r1m7 TIL severe heartbreak can cause emotional trauma which imprints on individuals' psychobiological wellbeing, affecting future responses to rejection or loss. A key factor to the trauma is 'being left' triggers primal separation fear – the fear of being left with no one to care for one's vital needs.
aGxA TIL that the reason Moe’s last name is Szyslak is because The Simpsons writers needed more MS initialed names for Who Shot Mr Burns.
knEB TIL that medieval peasants received more vacation time than the average American. Their workdays also included time for leisurely meals and an afternoon nap.
R5WP8 TIL the man whose wife and five Sunday school students were killed during WWII by a Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon then married the older sister of two of the Sunday schoolers, went to South Vietnam for missionary work with his new family, was kidnapped by the Viet Cong, and remains missing.