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TIL two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we're clinically depressed and gaming reverses that damage. Gameplay hyperstimulates areas of the brain associated with motivation, goals, learning and memory; making it the neurological opposite of depression.

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Y7BMB TIL that Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, was assassinated by two women who believed they were acting in a prank video
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