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TIL that the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression is considered outdated

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XEVrQ TIL of August Natterer, who, on April Fool's Day 1907, had a pivotal hallucination of the Doomsday, during which "10,000 images flashed by in half an hour". He spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, where he became a prolific painter, attempting to capture his hallucination.
JYyQ4 TIL of Arthur, an street dog from Ecuador who followed a Swedish sports team during a marathon after they gave him a canned meatball. Afterwards, they adopted him and took him back to Sweden. He inspired a foundation to rescue other street dogs.
jNoNn TIL the original 3 Musketeer bars of the 1930's came in packs of three: one bar with vanilla nougat, one with chocolate nougat and one with strawberry nougat (hence the name "Three Musketeers"). WWII rations made the company reduce the three pack to just one bar with chocolate nougat.
x6geo TIL that in 1999, 11-year old Mitchell Schop wrote to his favorite band, Cake, and asked if they would play his Bar Mitzvah. After Schop sang his favorite song of theirs to the band over the phone, Cake agreed and made Schop's party the first stop on their 1999 world tour
VMA9B TIL That a man in Florida woke up with a splitting migraine. When he arrives at the hospital, doctors found a bullet in his head. His wife had shot him in the head while he slept.