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TIL that children exposed to violence and abuse show signs of faster aging

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GY6lE TIL Greg Louganis cracked his head in the 1988 Olympics springboard preliminaries. He got 4 stitches and went on to win the gold medal the next day.
wLNo7 TIL ”Days of our lives” is one of the longest running soap operas, spanning over seven decades of regular screenings with almost 14k episodes (and counting). Some actors have appeared as different characters and some who died in real life still appear years later in flashbacks with unused footage.
4kn16 TIL Ketamine replaced another drug as the go to anesthetic during the Vietnam War, seeing as it presented far fewer side effects. They originally used PCP.
rGlM TIL biologists have revived 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from Antarctic ice
ZpEKp TIL that future supermodel Naomi Campbell was featured in the music video for the Bob Marley song 'Is This Love', when she was a child.