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TIL Mainland Europe is in the middle of a years long drought. Major rivers are drying up, reservoirs in France and Italy are about 50% lower than they should be. Longest river in Italy, the Po, is 60% below its normal levels, and there is less than half of the expected snow on the Alps.

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j61JX TIL that at the Confederacy’s surrender at Appomattox, a Seneca Indian (General Grant’s secretary), Lieutenant Colonel Ely Parker, wrote the terms of surrender
nWaj9 TIL recurring dreams about being unprepared for—or failing—an exam symbolises that we are feeling unprepared in regard to a challenging situation in waking life. The subconscious mind is referring to the past in order to provide similarities to help make sense of our current experience
v1WV8 TIL about the European Green Belt, an area stretching from Finland to Albania that has a unique ecological wildlife due limited human involvement as it also was the iron curtain border for 50 years.
4kWRa TIL that Hōjō Masako, the widow of Japan’s first shōgun, became a nun after his death but ended up running the shogunate from behind the scenes, crushing political enemies, choosing new shōguns, and shaping Japanese politics for decades. History remembers her as the “Nun Shōgun.”
4kAPa TIL That people think in different ways. People who think in the verbaliser style have spoken word associations (ex: talk to themselves in their head) and people who think in the imager style think in images; and there are people who use both styles.