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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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KO05E TIL human babies are helpless because we walk upright. Walking upright requires a narrow pelvis, in which our large head/brain would get stuck during birth, so babies are born with a smaller head/brain that develops more after birth, compared to other mammals.
wo0P6 TIL Disagreeing with his contemporaries generally who saw the roman republic as disunited and disorganised because of the plebeian uprisings, Niccolo Machiavelli defended said uprisings as essential to liberty and argued in favor of strikes and non-violent popular dissent
xLR0 TIL of Shavarsh Karapetyan, a world champion swimmer who after finishing his routine 12 mile run heard a bus crash into a lake. He then swam down 33 ft and one by one saved 20 passengers. After receiving multiple wounds, he was in a coma for 46 days, which subsequently ended his professional career.
m0Wp TIL that the U.S. Government believes that very high quality counterfeit United States one hundred-dollar bills have been made by unknown organizations or governments, and that most likely most of these notes were produced in North Korea.
6OpZ TIL 53 percent of the people who live in Fiji don’t have access to clean, safe water yet Fiji water is the nation’s largest export