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TIL sleep deprivation can temporarily act as an antidepressant.

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jWnM TIL The Great Wall of China is being stolen brick-by-brick by locals to build houses and also by visitors as souvenirs.
GXLg TIL that the actor who played Crabbe in the Harry Potter series was arrested for growing cannabis,participation in the 2011 England riots, and possession Molotov cocktail.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
OGJe TIL that coal plants release more radiation than nuclear power plants
nRlr TIL in 1973 two men were stranded 1,575 feet below the ocean when their submarine buoyancy tank inadvertently flooded. They were rescued after 76 hours with only 12 minutes of air remaining. It was the deepest underwater rescue mission in history.