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TIL that lack of free play for children and little to no freedom to choose who they play with leads to mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, later in life.

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V6nG TIL forrest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940s, and that the US has more trees now than at any time in the past 100 years.
NXvXP TIL about the Argument from incomplete devastation. The argument is a form of argument from observed miracles. Plane crashes, 200 died, 1 survived, there is a God.
VBpMD TIL that Stockard Channing, who played Rizzo in Grease, was actually 33 years old when she portrayed a high school student.
LRgr TIL The only person to ever create 3 companies to go public on the New York stock exchange was a trucker who only got into it because his family could not afford to send him to college. He ended up creating the entire shipping container industry, as well as the ships that carry them. Malcom McLean.
7ee7 TIL it is beneficial to lick your wounds. A variety of compounds in human saliva actually do speed healing.