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TIL that a psychiatric study done on survivors of the WWII London bombings shows that while people that barely survived suffered shock and trauma, people farther away felt a "feeling of excitement with a flavor of invulnerability".

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GPxE TIL: Lack of connection is a key reason why people have suicidal thoughts; isolation contributes to and escalates their pain.
ymPw TIL In the Victorian era, there were special moustache cups for drinking tea. The cup kept men’s moustache wax out of the tea so it wouldn’t melt into their cup when they took a sip.
dGkd TIL that Bladerunner is so visually stunning partly because of the 1980 Hollywood Actors Strike, which gave the film’s Art Department and Designers an extra 3 months to improve and refine significantly their futuristic sets and props.
GNgG [TIL] Crimea was one of the first carriers of the black plague back in 1346.
b6PwQ TIL that when scientists transferred the gut microbiome of a schizophrenic human into mice, the mice started exhibiting schizophrenic-like behaviours.