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TIL from my dentist that students practice local anesthetic on each other

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gMvvb TIL Nestlé pays $524 yearly on an expired permit to pump and bottle about 30 million gallons of water from California, even during droughts. To explain this, a supervisor claimed that the Forest Service didn't have the money for a proper review of the permit; he later became a consultant for Nestlé.
wLODJ TIL the original ending for First Blood had Rambo killing himself but Sylvester Stallone asked for it to be change because he believed the character had suffered enough
g65L TIL The first time Ted Bundy was reported as a possible suspect, the police ignored it because they thought it unlikely that a clean-cut law student with no adult criminal record could be the perpetrator
d8818 TIL that the jury trials in the State of Louisiana does not require a unanimous decision. Guilty verdicts can be reached with just 10 / 12 jurors.
D1jdD TIL two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we're clinically depressed and gaming reverses that damage. Gameplay hyperstimulates areas of the brain associated with motivation, goals, learning and memory; making it the neurological opposite of depression.