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TIL: A Harvard study found that graduate students are 3 time more likely to have depression than the average American. It suggest that this is due to doctoral students being overworked and underpaid and questioning "what is my purpose?"as most don't know when they have researched enough.

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JnDk TIL that Abraham Lincoln arrested pro-confederate members of Maryland’s legislature as they were headed to a vote on whether Maryland would secede from the Union, in order to prevent Maryland from seceding.
awdD9 TIL researchers have observed that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. The rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web.
kane TIL that an autistic girl was given a computer after 11 years of not being able to communicate with the world around her and was able to provide incredible information about what t is truly like to live with severe autism
neEaB TIL Crispy Chinese noodles are just fried egg roll wrappers
DXAP TIL that Frank Sinatra once drunkenly tipped a valet $200, asking him if that was the biggest tip he ever received. When the valet responded “no” Sinatra asked him who had tipped him more. The valet responded “why you did, Mr. Sinatra. Last week!”