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TIL that only .05% of French children have ADHD, because doctors treat it as a psycho-social disorder, instead of a biological one, and treat with psychotherapy, instead of relying on medication to control behavior

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0PRA TIL that as millions of North Koreans go hungry, the country’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown in daily from China (on North Korea’s national airline).
ANJPl TIL About "commotio cordis" a heart failure that occurs if you get hit in the chest at just the right time, causing a disturbance in the electrical impulses. It directly affects your heart rhythm and in most cases kill with a 3 minute window to treat.
LQAEv TIL - until 2015, when the United States military would train and use dogs in helping with the war effort, once they became no longer useful or too old they were considered “retired” and simply abandoned.
m10pO TIL that, before it was known that birds migrated in the winter, it was a commonly accepted theory that birds dug holes and buried themselves in the ground during the cold months. In fact, Aristotle claimed he had found "swallows and kites [...] in holes in the ground".
P1xdw TIL there are at least 20 quadrillion ants on earth - roughly 2.5 million per person 🤯