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TIL that playing Tetris after a traumatic event can reduce the number of flashbacks later experienced

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9YQRD TIL that the board game Snakes and Ladders originated from an Indian game based on Karma and morality.
R8L1 TIL the CIA website has a Kids’ Zone where kids can play spy based games including an aerial analysis game.
eoLD TIL in 2014 an election candidate was arrested in the UK for inciting hatred after reading verbatim a quote by Winston Churchill
8evXL TIL In 1998 part of the hull of the Titanic was recovered and is displayed in a casino. Visitors are given a 'boarding pass' with the name of a passenger and find out the fate of their passenger at the end of the exhibition.
XEM0X TIL in 2002, an elderly Belgian man accidentally set off a booby trap he had set up to kill his family. This resulted in him getting shot in the neck. Detectives ended up finding a total of 19 traps the man had set up in the house.