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

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Wao TIL that Fox Studio passed on the ‘Watchmen’ movie because they thought the script was “one of the most unintelligible pieces of shit they had read in years”
Z8Baa TIL that when a hurricane is approaching, Walmart sales of Strawberry flavoured Pop-Tarts increase by over over 7x.
g4WW TIL Aerogel (an ultralight material used by NASA) was created by a scientist as the result of a bet whether he could replace the liquid in jellies with gas
ADExd TIL Tchaikovsky had a patron who gave him enough money to quit his job and become a full-time composer, on the condition that they never meet in person.
1MR8 TIL of the “man will never fly” conspiracy. People who believe that man actually has never flown and are just tricked into believing they are flying.