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TIL that reading articles and news involving traumatic events can cause something caused vicarious trauma, which is like a form of PTSD but from second-hand experience.

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4xoa TIL the Chinese have opened the highest and longest glass-bottom bridge in the world in an area known as the Avatar Mountains. The bridge spans 430 meters and is as much as 300 meters high.
QJ0mE TIL that the U.S. refused to repay massive revolutionary war debts to France after Frances own revolution, claiming the debt was owed to the prior regime
5YKx9 TIL that the US Women's National Team lost 5-2 against a Dallas boys squad made up of kids under 15
grQp7 TIL As part of a live-fire test of a nuclear air-to-air rocket, 5 U.S. air crewmen agreed to stand directly beneath the nuclear explosion to prove it would not affect ground populations
D1G4p TIL that a 10yo American Girl became penpals with a 54yo South American Dictator