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Today I learned that someone experiencing stress or anxiety can feel a tight pain in their chest similar to that of a heart attack

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69Ag8 TIL that mosasaurs, marine animals contemporary with dinosaurs that went extinct after Cretaceous period, are most closely related to snakes
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.
VMYQZ TIL that in 1971, Private Eye magazine responded to a legal threat by telling the complainant to “fuck off”.
OGgWY TIL from watching a movie with Swedish subtitles that “the end” in Swedish is “slut”
j6oMR TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.