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TIL Cities are associated with higher rates of most mental health problems compared to rural areas: an almost 40% higher risk of depression, over 20% more anxiety, and double the risk of schizophrenia, in addition to more loneliness, isolation and stress.

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jNeWQ TIL about Sue Finley, who at 80 is the longest-serving female employee at NASA. She has had a role in nearly every US unmanned space probe, and some missions of other nations.
JvO4 TIL Most lizards can’t breath and run at the same time, due to sideways flexing of the body expanding one lung and compresses the other, shunting stale air from lung to lung instead of expelling it completely to make room for fresh air.
ZZjD TIL that the book keeper at the 1st franchised Mcdonald’s worked for free for the first 9 months and little pay after that, and was given 10% of the company. 10 years later she cashed in part of her holdings for $300,000 (worth 1.7 mil today) and kept the rest worth 5 mil (28 mil today).
R7BEw TIL about Philipp Mainländer a philosopher who theorised that God committed suicide and his decaying corpse is the living universe, and since God was an infinite being the only way he could kill himself was to shatter his timeless being into a time-bound and material universe.
R59ba TIL about the Diprotodon – the largest marsupial ever. It weighed up to 3,500 kg (close to an Asian elephant), looked like some capybara on steroids and was likely driven to extinction by humans some 40,000 years ago