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TIL a city in Sweden uses light therapy in bus stops to combat depression during winter when 19 hours of the day are darkness

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ZDlQ TIL that several times in the Batman series, the Joker has become temporarily sane. In these brief moments, he has expressed extreme regret for his actions (Also he has killed over 2,000 people)
grZyb TIL that the world's oldest known message in a bottle was discovered on an Australian beach, having been thrown into the ocean over 132 years ago by a German ship's crew as part of a scientific experiment.
BLQe TIL that Montpelier, VT is the only US state capital with no McDonald’s
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