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TIL that America built 12 Concrete Ships near the end of WW1 due to a steel shortage. They weren't complete failures but had high running costs and after the war, they were withdrawn from service.

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NkEN TIL that you can have seizures all your life and never know it. They are Temporal Lobe seizures and are referred to auras and include a sense of deja vu or unexplained sense if dread.
rRA5x TIL of the “availability heuristic,” by which people judge the likelihood of events based on the number of times they hear about them. Explains why many people are pessimistic about the world given the amount of media coverage available, which favors bad news.
ZWb4 TIL that there is a disease that takes away your ability to sleep. You sink into horrible psychosis and inevitably die over the course of a few months. There is no cure; there are no viable treatments.
bnwQ TIL that a lower IQ as a child correlates to higher chances of obesity as an adult
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