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TIL — World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes "occupational burnout" as a syndrome resulting from chronic work-related stress, but does not classify it as a medical condition.

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p8brO TIL if you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic's smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrate the skin and blood vessels, where it goes all the way up to your mouth and nose.
JbQk TIL Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ was painted while he was in a mental institution in 1889. Not only that, his painting perfectly captured the scientific phenomenon known as “turbulence” To mathematical precision despite it not being explained via physics in the 1940’s.
RE0a TIL Christopher Walken doesn’t have a computer or a cell phone, and doesn’t drive in traffic because it makes him nervous.
Z8ado TIL that Anne Frank's older sister, Margot also kept a diary, but no trace of it has ever been found.
9wWJr TIL about Jemima Nicholas, a Welsh woman who thwarted the French invasion of Britain in 1797 by leading a dozen women with pitchforks against the 1400 French troops. She captured 12 troops and locked them in a church, the French surrendered after 3 days