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TIL STOP is an acronym for a short mindfulness which stands for Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed. Its an exercise that can be used when you feel stressed, overwhelmed or when you notice that your mind is just all over the place as a means to ground you back in focusing on what you were doing.

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4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!
0wBbA TIL the Irish Myth of "Stingy Jack” about a man who tricked the devil and therefore kept out of hell but is not welcome in heaven. He wanders the earth with a Lantern and Halloween is his time of year.
M71DK TIL that if you're a communist - or were in the past 10 years - the US prevents you from becoming a citizen
Obe6 TIL there’s a Japanese word for testing your new sword by killing a random passer-by. It’s tsuji-giri (辻斬り), literally ‘crossroads killing’
9bpD TIL Alcohol is the most dangerous drug to withdrawal from.