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TIL that sleep deprevation after an traumatic event can help to process it better, basically because sleep is needed to memorize internalize what happened.

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QNML6 TIL that in 1992, on a background of high inflation and poor productivity, the British Pound collapsed, costing the UK Government 3.4B Pounds and forcing withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
XEyDX TIL: Humans have a faster reaction time to audio cues than visual cues. There is also a significant difference between male and female reaction time, as well as between sedentary and regularly exercising individuals.
Z8lAB TIL that England doesn't have its own national anthem so God Save the Queen (the national anthem of the United Kingdom as a whole) is often used in its place. Candidates for an English national anthem include "Jerusalem", "Land of Hope and Glory"and "I Vow to Thee, My Country".
kOG55 TIL in 1988 there were Anti-African protests in Nanjing, China. The protests were groundbreaking dissidence for China and would play a role in influencing the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
6901W TIL the original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code for Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module (Luminary099) is available on Github.