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TIL that PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.

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YpavW TIL Mississippi is the only state to allow drivers to drink alcohol while operating a motor vehicle as long as the driver's blood alcohol content stays below the state’s legal limit of .08%
b9ZM0 TIL: Sarah Breedlove, an orphan born to freed slaves, became the 1st self-made female millionaire in US history around early 1900's by inventing & selling homemade hair-care products through her own factory. She even built a beauty school to train sales agents. $1 million then = $13 million today.
kAn4 TIL that North Korea’s national animal is the Chollima, which is a mystical winged flying horse.
j6RVX TIL that Sir Edward Elgar, composer of, "Pomp and Circumstance March No.1," more commonly known as "The Graduation Song" never actually finished school himself. He only received general education until the age of fifteen. Meanwhile, most of his musical talent came from self-teaching and study.
5ner TIL the only senator to vote against the US entering the Second World War, after the Pearl Harbor attack, defended her position by saying “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.” Republican leaders from Montana – her state – demanded she change her vote, but she refused.