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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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Yeyr TIL that in Pulp Fiction, Mia and Vincent don’t actually win the dance contest. We see them return with the trophy, but you can hear a news story on a TV Butch passes later describing that the trophy was stolen the night before from Jackrabbit Slim’s.
YpyDx TIL: In 2010, a boa constrictor was shown to have reproduced asexually via parthenogenesis. This is only the third genetically confirmed case of consecutive virgin births of viable offspring from a single female within any vertebrate lineage.
JY54j TIL In the original Cinderella Story the ball was set over three days, and Cinderella had eluded him the first two nights, so the prince had set a mousetrap and covered the palace stairs in tar to catch Cinderella before she escaped.
GA5K5 TIL that after the US hydrogen bomb test in 1954 exposed a Japanese fishing vessel to radiation, over one-third of Japan's population signed a petition to ban nuclear tests. This public outcry influenced Japan to establish its Atomic Energy Basic Law in 1955, forbidding military use of nuclear energ
vg57 TIL ancient Rome’s toilets were not hooked up to the extensive sewer system but into nearby open cesspits