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TIL: People who are depressed perceive less visual contrast, literally causing them to see a less vivid more grey world.

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rRpZe TIL: in 1978, 2,300 students tried to set a WR for the largest tug of war game. Instead, disaster ensued. The 2,000ft long braided nylon rope snapped, recoiling several thousand pounds of stored energy. Nearly 200 students lay wounded, 5 with severed fingertips, hundreds more faced 2nd degree burns.
yVG1e TIL in the sitcom "The King of Queens", Carrie Heffernan had a sister named Sara that was in five of the first six episodes in Season 1 and then disappeared. She was mentioned in Season 3, but later plot lines and dialogue suggested that the sister never existed, and that Carrie is an only child.
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OGgZY TIL about Captagon, an illegal drug primarily produced in Syria and shipped to the Gulf states. The scale of the Captagon market is estimated by some to be three times the combined trade of the Mexican cartels.
EgJGP TIL there are less than 10 thousand people living in the United States who are worth $100 million or more. That's less than 0.0029% of the population.