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TIL video games have not been proven addictive, and that fantasy violence in games has 0 effect on real world violence

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p89we TIL that despite the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was even worse. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334, low-flying B-29 bombers.
R5gP4 TIL that a tiger went on an 800-mile journey to find a mate, crossed 11 villages and there was a solitary incident with a human, only when the villager came to take a selfie.
RJx6 TIL ants can accidentally misinterpret the chemical trails left by other ants and start walking in circles. If too many members of the colony join in, it can kill the whole colony in what is sometimes known as the ‘Death Spiral’
nlYB TIL that El Cid, a military leader in the middle ages, was so feared that, after his death, his embalmed body was placed on a horse and sent into battle causing the enemy to flee.
Lex9 TIL that a group of Orthodox Jews in New Jersey joined their local school board and began redirecting funds from public schools to their childrens’ yeshiva classes…despite their children not attending any of these public schools