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TIL: 23% of American women in their 40s and 50s take antidepressants

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OGGwa TIL Sigmund Freud was the first to state that cerebral palsy can be caused by abnormal development before birth. He noticed that some children who experienced oxygen loss during childbirth were not affected, while others were
lo751 TIL After the Siege of Leningrad was broken, the Soviets wanted to prosecute those who had resorted to cannibalism. However, so many were accused (over two thousand) that the NKVD had to divide them into two groups; 'corpse-eating' and 'person-eating'. The former were jailed, that later were shot
epyKg TIL that the close friendship between the twin border towns of St. Stephen, Canada and Calais, US dates to the War of 1812, when the British aided St. Stephen with protective gunpowder against the Americans, who then gave it to Calais for their Fourth of July celebrations
p8jVe TIL The longest pro baseball game ever was a AAA game that took 33 innings, took 8 1/2 hours to complete, had future Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. playing, set 12 records, and had the final inning resumed months later to much fanfare only to end after 18 minutes.
mxWaM TIL that, whilst botulism affects 200 Americans every year, Avian botulism kills vast swathes of birds, with single outbreaks killing ca. 50,000 birds and several outbreaks occurring per year