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TIL porn searches increase 4,700% when kids get home from school.

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D1jdD TIL two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we're clinically depressed and gaming reverses that damage. Gameplay hyperstimulates areas of the brain associated with motivation, goals, learning and memory; making it the neurological opposite of depression.
XO6Q TIL that a man and nine of his friends played a game of tag for 23 years. The game had no geographic limits, and only went live in the month of February, meaning that if you were tagged last, you were “It” for a year.
oYwY TIL In Cambridge, Canada you can pay your parking tickets by giving toys of equal value to charity
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W76BA TIL about Forthman Murff, a lumberjack whose chainsaw fell on his neck, nearly decapitating him. He drove himself to the hospital with his head attached to his body only by his spinal column, and lived.