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TIL Sigmund Freud, who revolutionized the practice of psychiatry with his theories of the unconscious, postulated that depression comes from anger turned against oneself.

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7rwMM TIL a 4-yr-old captive beluga whale who'd been living with belugas moved to a dolphinarium where her only companions were dolphins. In her early days with the dolphins, she made beluga "contact calls." Within 2 months, the beluga imitated dolphin whistles & dropped the beluga calls altogether.
NXp9N TIL that if you laid out an adult's circulatory system, the blood vessels would total over 60,000 miles. That equals more than twice around the world.
0kxy TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”
mxy5y TIL of Dick Assman, a Canadian gas station employee whose name made him a celebrity in 1995. David Letterman, learning of him, was amused by Assman's name and made him nightly feature on the show. As his fame grew polling showed that 49 percent of Canadians in September 1995 had heard of him.
NXkbE TIL in Dante's divine comedy there's a special place reserved for people who stayed neutral, didn't commit to either good or evil and simply lived their obscure lives, avoiding to pick a side on moral issues. They get punished but not in hell, as even the demons want nothing to do with them