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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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kOXpe TIL that Carlos Kaiser was a professional soccer player signed for many clubs without having played a single professional game. He "wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football",would sign short contracts based on recommendations of his football friends and fake injuries!
oARR TIL researchers are trying to get 2 gorillas who can use sign language to mate in the hope they’ll teach their offspring sign language too.
GgR4 TIL Actress Jodie Foster was born three years after her parents got divorced. She was conceived while her mom was visitin her dad for child support.
joKv TIL that Carl Sagan and the 14th Dalai Lama had a 35 hour communication captured on film.
95Ym TIL that plastic surgeons use decapitated cadaver heads to learn and refresh their surgical skills. Somewhere out there, there a person who beheads cadavers for a living.