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TIL People with depression feel better after listening to sad music

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8aOGZ TIL Japanese schools make children square dance to the tune of “Turkey in the Straw,” and call it an “Oklahoma Mixer”
pDd4 TIL that Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign web site is still online.
9rAX TIL Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore were roommates in college.
GDA1 TIL that radiotrophic fungi exist which can transform gamma radiation into chemical energy. They were found inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
bBOp TIL that there was a Polish King nicknamed “the Strong” because he could break horseshoes with his bare hands and loved fox tossing, a sport where you throw foxes with a sling, one event had 1235 foxes, hares, badgers, and wildcats. He had several mistresses and fathered as many as 382 children.