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TIL smoking weed can cause anxiety disorders.

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78PkZ Today I learned to keep typing on computers with my back straight and feet flat on the ground using a nice posture since it can cause long-term health issues if you are not sitting properly.
woG8M TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
x6VP1 TIL An ad for Tango, a soft drink in the UK, which showed a topless orange man slapping people as a metaphor for tasting the drink, caused a craze where kids would slap each other and say "You've been Tango'd!" With one child suffering a perforated ear drum. The ad was withdrawn.
pdWA TIL in 1971, 80 percent of third-graders walked to school alone. By 1990, that measure had dropped to 9 percent, and now it’s even lower.
neJMW TIL the original B&W set for the Addams Family was actually pink because it looks better on B&W