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TIL The last living patient treated by Sigmund Freud was 88 in 2006 and credited him as "saving my life". She was a teenager in 1936 who "opened her heart to the therapist", recalling telling 80 year old Freud of reading erotic books and uncomfortable moments with her father

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b9Pb7 TIL: The word "Antifragile"—it describes systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures; fundamentally different from resiliency (recovering from failure) and robustness (resisting failure).
78dYb TIL - After the American Civil War, up to 20,000 Southerners emigrated to Brazil. Their descendants are called Confederados, and they still hold festivals with Confederate flags and Southern food. They openly embrace their American ancestry still.
rR5n0 TIL Pîhtokahanapiwiyin, or Poundmaker, who successfully pushed back a Canadian military force and instead of continuing the fight, he surrendered himself to the British government stating, "Had I wanted war, I would not be here now. I should be on the prairie. You did not catch me. I gave myself up.
voGx TIL that every atom comprising your body would span 73 light years if consecutively stacked together
rNM70 TIL: The largest reciprocating engine in the world is the RT-flex96C, a turbocharged diesel engine designed by the Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships. Its 14-cylinder version is 44 ft high, 87.2 ft long, weighs over 2,300 t, and produces 107,390 hp