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TIL that meditation has been shown to be as effective as anti- depressants in treating anxiety.

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4kKDb TIL that The Toba eruption was a supervolcano eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago leading to reducing human population to a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs ,all of today's humans are descended from this tiny surviving group.
woGeW TIL that in the 60's they had pacemakers with RTG's in them, a type of nuclear battery that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity.
kJ6Q4 TIL of the HMS Black Joke, a former slave ship captured and given to the British West Africa squadron. Over a 5 year career she captured dozens of slave ships and freed thousands of African slaves bound for the Western Hemisphere.
NXYYP TIL that the earlier dominance of boxer Roy Jones Jr counted against him late in his boxing career against Joe Calzaghe. Calzaghe cut Jones Jr and because Jones’s corner team had never witnessed this before, they were unable to handle it effectively, leaving Jones covered in blood.
pY0we TIL the feast day of St. Nicholas (Santa Claus) isn’t on December 25th, but on December 6th