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TIL Sleep deprivation temporarily helps with depression
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TIL about Lt.-Col. William Rankin, the only person in history to survive falling through a thunderstorm
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TIL that Unsolved Mysteries' host Robert Stack was often skeptical of the paranormal stories that the show covered. While recording narration for the show's segments, he would occasionally turn to his producer and exclaim "come on, Raymond!"
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TIL that a 6-ton night pearl worth 2.2 billion yuan (331 million US dollars) was discovered in Northern China's Inner Mongolia. It is mainly composed of a fluorite mineral and emits translucent crystal ray in the darkness.
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TIL that Operation Christmas Drop, a training exercise where the US Air Force drops presents and supplies in Micronesia, is the longest running humanitarian air lift in the world. Supplies and presents have been dropped every Christmas since 1952.
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TIL that Arthur Ganson built a kinetic sculpture of connected gears called “Machine with Concrete.” The 1st gear turns at 200 rpm and the last gear is stuck in concrete. It can still run because each gear set reduces the turning speed, meaning that the last gear only revolves every 2 trillion years.