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TIL The red cross is actually a Swiss flag with the red and white inverted, and does not have roots in christanity.

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DQLVJ TIL Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) refers to a lifelong inability to vividly recollect or re-experience personal past events from a first-person perspective.
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