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TIL excessive childhood stress can cause permanent brain damage and affect gene expression.

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b9WQ7 TIL The second person to survive going over Niagra falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, later died after slipping on an orange peel
D1LBY TIL that ultrasound, thought to lie outside of the human hearing range, can be detected by listeners when it is played in combination with sound in the audible range. The mechanism for this is unknown, but in June 2000, researchers verified it by using brain activity scans.
Zp5YD Today I learned that Fatty and Spotty (two of the Bash Street Kids from The Beano) were respectively renamed Freddy and Scotty in 2021.
VMEZ4 TIL Radio GTMO, the Armed Forces radio station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has a vinyl collection of over 20,000 records, including some albums that exist nowhere else.
WWJY TIL Finland is the first nation in the world to experiment with autonomous vehicles in urban conditions. That is because the country’s book of law doesn’t oblige the driver to be inside the vehicle.