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TIL that our brains do their best to keep us from dwelling on our inevitable demise. A study found that the brain shields us from existential fear by categorising death as an unfortunate event that only befalls other people.

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x68rk TIL at over 100 years old, Iris Cummings is the sole surviving attendee of the 1936 Nazi-Germany Olympics
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