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TIL more than 86% of psychologists have themselves sought therapy (average of 221 sessions), and 62% identify as depressed, themselves.

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B9AK TIL The last surviving member of the crew that bombed Hiroshima hosted Japanese students at his home and commented “The Japanese you know today are not the Japanese we fought during WW2. The Japanese today are nice people.”
e0Y55 TIL Poland broke Enigma over six years before WWII started and had built machines to automate it by 1938, long before Alan Turing improved the design.
5VrgD TIL that Halloween in early 19th Century America was a night of pranks, tricks, illusions and anarchy.
4kDbb TIL ~31% of Pakistani people aged 20-79 have diabetes
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.