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TIL How mindfulness could help reduce certain types of dissociation, especially normative, not directly but through improvements in attentional concentration and emotional acceptance.

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WQEB TIL that a man was sentenced to be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed and then his body would be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way he killed the children
OGQDg TIL During WWII the US Navy would convert two coal powered paddle-wheel steamships into the USS Wolverine and USS Sable, the only freshwater carriers ever created. Used for training on Lake Michigan, over 17,000 Navy pilots were certified on these vessels over the course of the war.
vPXY7 TIL Philosopher Zeno of Citium, the founder of the stoic school, once tripped and fell while leaving his school, breaking his toe. He saw this as a sign that he shouldn't live any longer, so he commited suicide on the spot
0wOXR TIL: In 2015, Everlast, a white musician who was one of the pioneers of country/blues/hip-hop crossover music converted to Islam.
oR9RE TIL that rock singer Marc Bolan refused to learn how to drive, fearing that he would die young in a car crash. In 1977, Bolan died at age 29 in a car crash, when a car, driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones, hit a tree.