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TIL Multiple studies have demonstrated that writing about personally distressing events can speed up healing of minor wounds

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ANrg4 TIL the Mu Us desert in China was completely wiped out by reforestation efforts
oyRW TIL there is a 73-Year-Old Japanese Man Creates Impressive Paintings Using Only Excel
bam9 TIL the World Wide Web Wanderer was designed at MIT to measure the size and growth of the internet. Wanderer is considered to be the first online bot, and was launched on this day in 1993!
rRvn4 TIL out of all the countries that were required to pay reparations from World War II, Finland is the only one known to have paid its bill in full when it sent $300 million to the Soviet Union in 1952.
NX8g1 TIL: That in 2012, a Dutch World War II memorial was revealed on which the names of Jewish, Allied and German military deaths were written alongside each other in Comic Sans. The names were eventually scraped off following complaints, only for the rewritten message to also be written in Comic Sans.