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TIL That A Video Game Designed to Treat Depression Worked Better Than Counseling

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mxPwo TIL 10 year old Candace Newmaker was suffocated to death during a "re-birthing" therapy session which simulated her being born again. (Transcript in link)
DWye TIL that, due to the extreme amount of red tape involved in exporting animals, Game of Thrones moves production to the home country of the dogs who portray the Starks’ direwolves to film their scenes, rather than attempt transporting them to Ireland.
7Ler TIL that until 1987 heart surgery (and other surgeries) would be performed on babies with no anaesthesia, as it was commonly thought that babies could not feel pain.
dVv7 TIL Dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.
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