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TIL that SSRI antidepressants (Zoloft, Lexapro, Prozac, etc.) actually make certain areas of your brain bigger that are associated with positive self-thought. These areas are small in a lot of people with depression and anxiety

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OGxA6 TIL that in 1900, a physician named Jesse William Lazear wanted to prove that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. He allowed an infected mosquito to bite him, and he became infected with yellow fever, proving the hypothesis correct. He died 17 days later.
jN7xN TIL Susanna Hoffs Recorded 'Eternal Flame' Naked
QNXPk TIL about ICC World Tesst Championship, a cricket tournament in which each season is 2 years long. In this duration, each team must play between 12 to 22 matches against any 6 countries; 3 in their home country and 3 away. The next season begins the same year in which the previous one ends.
6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.
6PMm TIL on July 30, 1971, the worst air disaster to that date occurred when a Fighter Pilot Trainee collided with a Boeing passenger jet over Japan. All 162 people aboard the jet died, but the fighter pilot ejected before impact and walked away unscathed.