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TIL studies show that an increase in Facebook usage is heavily linked to decrease in satisfaction with your own life and higher liklihood of depression.

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QN87E TIL Michael Shaara's book The Killer Angels, 1975 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the basis for the 1993 movie Gettysburg, reached the top of the NYT best seller list twenty years after being published. The Civil War battle novel is considered one of the best historic fictions ever written.
NNZQ TIL that Rock Band’s program to let artists upload their own material as DLC was called MAGMA, because that’s the source of rock.
mYOp TIL that Dr. Seuss, despite being an internationally renowned children’s author, never had children of his own, and even admitted that, “in mass, they terrify me.”
J1Lx1 TIL that in 2017, “Big Tobacco” companies were finally forced to air ads in the US that admitted their products were deadly and addictive. This came after 11 years of appeals by the companies to delay and weaken the nature of the ads.
RZaQ TIL the iconic image of the Grand Staircase of the Titanic is actually that of the Olympic because no pictures were ever taken of the one on the Titanic.