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TIL the maladaptive coping strategy of feelign anxious and avoiding the issue causing it is a feedback loop that creates more future anxiety, by giving you relief every time you decide to avoid it.

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yVXnw TIL that the A1 Highway in the UK used to be a dedicated road for reigining monarchs since medieval times.
xgYg TIL when Facebook users voted for Taylor Swift to perform at a school for deaf students as a prank, the school was removed from the contest, but Swift donated $10K to the school, 4 companies matched her donation, VH1 gave $10k in instruments, & Swift gave the students tickets to her Boston concert.
4XPyg TIL Candy Land was invented to cheer up children living in polio wards. Polio paralyzed many of its victims and the game offered the illusion of movement. Allowing the sick children the loose themselves in the sweet imaginative world of the game.
69X9l TIL That 1965 A patent was awarded for an “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force”
X1L6 TIL Sony was awarded an Emmy award for the DualShock controller