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TIL that anxiety and depression can cause physical pain

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XEyDX TIL: Humans have a faster reaction time to audio cues than visual cues. There is also a significant difference between male and female reaction time, as well as between sedentary and regularly exercising individuals.
Rvo8 TIL After WWII Japanese were tried, convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.
J1joB TIL Mastaba, meaning house of stability or house of eternity in Ancient Egyptian, is a type of flat-roofed, rectangular structure constructed out of mudbricks. It was the standard type of tomb in pre-dynastic and early dynastic Egypt for the pharaoh and the social elite, and a precursor to pyramids.