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TIL psychiatrists often overlook a patient’s caffeine intake habits during evaluations, despite its overuse being linked to worsening anxiety, disrupting sleep, and mimicking many common symptoms of psychosis.

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0wwpA TIL of endowment effect, hypothesis that people overvalue things just because they own them
8lbV TIL that a group of American journalists formed a secret society ‘The Order of the Occult Hand’ whose only goal is to slip the meaningless phrase “It was as if an occult hand had…” past editors and into published articles
Q1Nd TIL that there’s a variation of The Three Wise Monkeys, the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” monkeys covering their eyes, ears, and mouth(???). The variation contains a fourth monkey who covers its genitals to represent “do no evil”
kOPG7 TIL HDMI charges its licensed manufacturers $10,000 per year plus $0.15 per cable, reduced to $0.05 if the HDMI logo is on the socket.