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TIL People with depression feel better after listening to sad music

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J1YQV TiL : in 2010 underground art/protest group Voina ("war") drew a towering penis graffiti in 23 seconds on a bascule bridge in St. Petersburg. When raised, it was directly opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. [NSFW]
KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.
nem1Y TIL the only carbon negative country in the world is Bhutan. It sinks four million tonnes of CO2 per year.
69YY TIL there is a theory that human consciousness is a quantum process which, among other things, helps to explain psychedelic altered states and near death experiences.
4kJNw TIL that the heavily outnumbered British won the pivotal Battle of Plassey that started their conquest of India because they knew how to deal with rain. They covered their gunpowder while the Siraj's gunpowder got wet and unusable.