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TIL that there is evidence to suggest meditation plays a protective role against the natural reduction in grey matter volume associated with aging.

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rPJw TIL: a 14 year old boy needed 13L of blood during emergency surgery decided that when he was 18 he was going to start giving blood. Doctors discovered a rare antibody in his blood. He has saved over 2.4 million unborn babies over 5 decades.
e0Qyn TIL that Turtle Island is a name for North America used by some Indigenous and First Nations people and by some Indigenous rights activists, based on the Iroquois belief that the earth is supported on the back of a gigantic turtle called Hah-nu-nah
A5Po TIL that every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. A man skims through riverbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it’s applied to balls. It’s called the Lena Blackburne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud
JYNGV TIL in 2016 a man named Joshua won an entire resort located on the Micronesian island of Kosrae in a raffle he paid $65 to enter. When he won it, the resort was free of debt, profitable and had more than 20 years remaining on its lease.
Z87lY TIL of ‘The Matrix defense’. A form of The Insanity Defence in which the defendant claims that they committed a crime because they believed they were in the Matrix. i.e: “This isn’t even the real world, man. How can I actually commit a crime?”