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

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d8ryB TIL that the MRI of dogs’ brains show that they see their owners as family and prioritize the smell of humans over everything
wo6X6 TIL about Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ as a response to the murder of two officers, deploying over 800 soldiers and air support without any shots fired. The operation left a 19-foot stump as a reminder of the incident.
XQRR TIL Supercars are often abandoned in Dubai thanks strict debt laws. The cars are “left by expatriates and locals alike who flee in a hurry because they face crippling debts… hopping on the next flight out of there, never to return.”
BgQaK TIL of “Explosion,” a dog given to a radio crew stationed on Kiska in the Aleutians by a departing soldier. The IJN subsequently invaded the island and captured the radio-men, but Explosion survived 15 months in the mountains and was reunited with his original owner during the US counter-invasion.
0dZav TIL Nissan hired videogame maker Bandai Namco to create custom alert sounds for the 2021 Nissan Rogue and Pathfinder SUVs