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TIL Tetris leads to fewer intrusive memories when applied several days after a traumatic event

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E1xRp TIL Blind Willie Johnson was a blues guitarist who was blinded as a boy, abused by his father, and died penniless from disease after sleeping bundled in wet newspaper in a burnt down house. Carl Sagan preserved his legacy by selecting one of his songs for the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
5Y5WR TIL Scooby Doo’s real name is “Scoobert Doo”.
dGZ7 TIL that soviet scientists have been genetically breeding a species of fox since the 1950’s and have created the only known tame species of fox in the world in just over 50 years
Lk8M9 TIL That a study found that American consumers will shop longer in stores that have entrances on the right compared to those with center or left side entryways, due to consumers’ natural inclination to move in a counter clockwise direction.
4XRD6 TIL of the British Iraq Levies, a force mostly composed of Iraqi Turkmen, Kurds and Assyrians that fought alongside the Allies in WWII