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TIL. There is a program for severely autistic children that is having a remarkable rate of Improvement. The Son Rise program.

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Oo1Ma TIL about the "whale pump". Whales tend to defecate in surface waters; additionally the feces tend to float. Whales feed at deeper levels of the ocean where krill is found. The fecal action of whales thus reverses the usual flow of nutrients of the ocean's "biological pump"
loPEa TIL of "Shifting Baseline Syndrome." This is when significant systemic changes occur over time in a way that makes them extremely difficult for humans to perceive. 'New normals' are established which are experienced as though little to no change has taken place.
p8naZ TIL at a ceremony at Yankee Stadium Joe Dimaggio punched Billy Crystal in the stomach after Crystal neglected to introduce Dimaggio by his preferred title of 'Greatest living player'
LaMr TIL that every night in Providence, RI, skyscrapers, tugboats, hotels, and police cars flash and blink their lights on and off at 8:30 to tell kids at children’s hospitals good night
0k65 TIL two 300-ton weights sit at opposite ends of the 58th floor of the Hancock Tower in Boston because occupants on higher floors were getting motion sickness during high winds.