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TIL Navy SEALs brains are trained to alter the way the amygdala processes fear.

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0wmm1 TIL Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee has a Recombobulation Area for passengers to put themselves and their luggage back together after passing through security.
r8yM TIL about the Berlin Airlift and how the US and Britain led efforts to save Berlin using C-47s and C-54s to airlift food and supplies because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. An estimated 2M people were saved.
kO0Em TIL of Heinz Heydrich. Brother of Reinhard Heydrich who was a key architect of the Holocaust. When Heinz learned of the Final Solution he helped many Jews escape their certain deaths by forging identity papers.
RrX9 TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay
nJrd TIL babies born to mothers who used heroin while pregnant are given tinctures of opium to treat their withdrawal