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TIL that practicing gratitude daily can rewire your brain, boosting happiness and reducing stress by increasing dopamine and serotonin levels.

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49bo TIL evidence of the oldest man/dog relationship is in a French cave. Side-by-side foot and paw prints were discovered. The 26,000 year old tracks were left behind by a young boy and his wolf companion.
VBJkG TIL there was a girl who locked alone in a room for most of her first thirteen years, who never successfully learned a language. She is now 56 years old.
MWMb TIL In 2000, Taliban leader Mohammed Omar banned opium production in Afghanistan, effectively removing 70% of the world’s heroin supply.
DARY TIL in 1892, during a massive general labor strike in New Orleans, white and black workers united in an effort to gain better working conditions. Although commercial representatives tried to divide the workers by race, spreading stories of ‘negro mobs’ victimizing whites, the workers remained united
AOMa TIL that in 1981, the Russians successfully landed on the surface of the hottest planet on our Solar System, Venus. The Venera 13 probe later returned the first color images of the surface of Venus.