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Today I learned about Claire Weekes. Known as the woman who “cracked” the anxiety code. A pioneer of modern anxiety treatments and author of “Hope and Help for Your Nerves”.

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6EZPY TIL that the painter James McNeil Whistler was expelled from West Point by Robert E Lee
1rND TIL A 2-year study that linked Ecstasy to Parkinsons was retracted from the journal Science after the authors realized they had accidentally used meth instead.
d88nZ Doctors still don’t know what causes it, or how to stop it
7lyp TIL that Norman Borlaug (the father of the Green Revolution) learned that he received the Nobel Peace Prize while working in his wheat test plot in Mexico; he learned that he was outstanding in his field while he was out standing in his field.
nbV9 TIL of “Mit brennender Sorge,” a papal letter secretly smuggled into Germany and read from every Catholic pulpit on Palm Sunday, 1937. It condemned the Reich Government and implied that everyone in Heaven was laughing at Hitler, a “prophet of nothingness”.