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

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GAaX5 TIL the Volkswagen Golf is named after the Gulf Stream (Golfstrom in German) and not Golf the sport.
p6EQ TIL Puerto Rico is the tip of an enormous ancient mountain that descends more than 30,000 feet to the floor of the Caribbean Sea, taller even than Mount Everest
eZJD TIL WWI was not fought over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. His death was merely the flashpoint that triggered worldwide action over tensions that had simmered for years.
loA0r TIL that Harley-Davidson motorcycles are made almost entirely from foreign parts and have been for decades.
LKoV TIL of Aphantasia, a condition in which people cannot visualise things in their mind - in other words, they do not possess a functioning “mind’s eye”.