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TIL Osama Bin Laden played Nintendo games while in hiding

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69go7 TIL that humans have trained rats to sniff out land mines in Vietnam.
4XKL6 TIL Sleep deprivation has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But if you’re depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. This is the basis of Wake Therapy
R7gkl TIL: Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, and many other Hanna-Barbera characters had collars in order to make them easier (and cheaper) to animate.
4kKKg TIL arsenic is used in chemotherapy to treat a type of cancer called promyelocytic leukaemia
jvwM TIL there is an unofficial ban Richard Wagner’s operas in Israel, due to its connection to Adolf Hitler and Wagner’s own anti-Semitic writings.