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TIL That sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia and anxiety

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bGpp TIL Albert Einstein once received a letter from a girl lamenting that she couldn’t be scientist because of her gender. He responded, “I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.”
LklVv TIL that William Shatner directed 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier' because of a clause in his contract dating back to the original series ensuring that whatever Leonard Nimoy got—he did too. So after Nimoy directed 'Star Trek IV', Shatner insisted that he get a turn at directing a movie.
16bEO TIL that when St. Patrick was 16, he was captured by Irish pirates and sold as a slave in Ireland. He escaped after six years, attended seminary, and after becoming a priest, he chose to return to the land where he had been enslaved, eventually bringing Christianity to Ireland.
am1b TIL while Paul Revere had a famous 15 mile ride to alert the colonists of the British invasion, Israel Bissel rode 345miles starting that same night warning every town from Boston to New York to Philadelphia that the war had begun.
GYWEJ TIL A high school in Nunavut, Canada takes students on fox trapping sessions, offers polar bear body parts for science class, and has events where students skin seal meat for elders