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TIL Botox has been proven to be an effective treatment for depression.

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b6B6Z TIL that, despite being taught to learn from failure/mistakes, humans tend to block the memories of failure and make the same mistakes again.
Oo8wR TIL about Riccardo Bertani, an Italian farmer. Being the most proficient polyglot ever, he left the studies after elementary school and taught himself more than 100 languages.
ADdVx TIL that North Koreans are very proud of their one-of-a-kind desks. The desk was invented by Kim Jong Il and has a knob which can be used to adjust the height of the desk.
KOpBG TIL that 18th century France developed a visual telegraph system. Using a series of towers topped with adjustable beams that would display a message and instructions on the next tower to relay it to, messages could be sent across the country in a mere matter of hours, long before electricity.
xpdk TIL of Laurence Peter, author of the Peter Principle, which states: “… in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent…”