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TIL Ryan Reynolds has openly spoken about his lifelong struggle with anxiety, noting in 2018 that he carried out many interviews in the character of Deadpool to alleviate his fears.

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wLxMM TIL Pressure differentials can trap and kill divers underwater
jNOxN TIL A stroke used to be called apoplexy which is Greek "struck down by violence." Hippocrates, the father of medicine, first recognized stroke over 2,400 years ago.
DKDv TIL the actor who played Gimli in LOTR stood at 6'1". It also made him the tallest member of the actors in The Fellowship of the Ring.
Wkoeo TIL that it is possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious – and even to have differing opinions.
R5vvw TIL that Marie Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also received a Nobel prize in chemistry. And she also shared it with her husband.