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Til about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) if you have ever been through or witnessed a terrible event. A terrible event, such as a natural disaster, serious accident, asexual or physical harm, fight or war, or other situations that place a person's life in risk, may end up in PTSD.

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d8lRQ TIL that when he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. had a nearly 75% public disapproval rate
E1kQx TIL that Marilyn Monroe once walked around New York City in broad daylight with nobody noticing her. She asked her companions “do you want to see her?” When they said “yes”, she changed her walk, speech, and posture, and strangers who previously ignored her realized who she was.
v1YMj TIL the loudest undistorted sound possible on earth is 194 decibels. Above that threshold the sound waves become shockwaves.
wrd1 TIL of a woman who had a phantom itch so persistent and severe in her scalp that she scratched through her skull while she slept, damaging her brain.
JYwMk TIL the idiom "Turning a blind eye" is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said "I really do not see the signal" and pressed on with the attack.