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Z8PG4 TIL about Adam-ondi-Ahman, a historic site in Daviess County, Missouri, about five miles south of Jameson. According to the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it is the site where Adam and Eve lived after being expelled from the Garden of Eden.
yYwJ TIL that playing TETRIS soon after viewing traumatic material, reduces the amount of flashbacks experienced the next week. This is thought to be because the game interrupts memories of the sights and sounds.
kJAmg TIL in 1984 three hippos died in a West German zoo after an elephant opened a valve and sent hot water into their pool, generating steam that suffocated them.
lYBK TIL On D-Day General Eisenhower kept a statement in his pocket, never used, to be read out in case the Normandy landings failed.