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TIL that listening to your favorite music for just 15 minutes a day lowers stress levels, anxiety, sadness and a depressed mood .

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vJ9D TIL the water resistance depth shown on a watch does not mean the watch can actually be taken to that depth. A watch classified for 30 meters should not even be taken into the shower.
7rQVx TIL of the Bechdel test- a movie that passes must have two women that talk to each other about something other than a man. Almost half of all movies fail.
x6Nob TIL that Julia Dent Grant was the first First Lady to be filmed and that she originated the concept of the State Dinner at the White House. Her first dinner honored visiting King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
OoOGa TIL one of the first functional digital home computers was the Digi-Comp I from 1963. It was entirely mechanical and used no electricity. It could output 3 binary digits and programmers used thin wires to set up primitive logic. With no power, the user had to pull a lever to perform each CPU cycle.
d8Poj TIL the world's longest maritime chase lasted 110 days which started near Antarctica and ended on the equator.