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TIL Americans are over-diagnosed and over-treated for depression, according to a study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

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ANZYo TIL that Today's birds evolved from huge meat-eating dinosaurs that shrank continuously for 50 million years.
xVyKg TIL shortly after returning from the moon Buzz Aldrin began to suffer from alcoholism and depression. "I wanted to resume my duties, but there were no duties to resume. There was no goal, no sense of calling, no project worth pouring myself into."
aBxo TIL that in 1970 a prominent surgeon said a woman would be unfit to be president during the Bay of Pigs because of “raging hormones,” when actually JFK had hormone imbalances from Addison’s disease
WkWrd Til in 2016 NASA sent Fungi from Chernobyl in space to study. This fungi eats radiation. The resulting data is yet to be published
woZn7 TIL that there exists a god of stupidity. His name is Koalemos (Κοάλεμος), and he's a minor Greek diety.