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TIL that anxiety over maths lights up the same brain areas as physical pain.

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KE84 TIL: After 4 drunk/stoned punks harrased the siberian tiger at the San Francisco zoo, the tiger escaped, hunted them down, killed one and injuried 2 others
8ay1Z TIL when Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked by clubs and TV because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered to come to a nightclub every night and sit in the front row if they let Ella sing.
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