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TIL that dozens of methods have been proven more effective than AA’s Twelve Step Program

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0dX6j TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky was once mock executed and that he processed the event in his novel „The idiot“
QJlg9 TIL Guion S. Bluford was a decorated Air Force pilot in Vietnam before joining NASA in the late 1970s.In 1983,he became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger.Before he retired he had logged 688 hours in space.
OoeeL TIL: Dildo, unincorporated town in Newfoundland, Canada, population 1,198. “In the 20th century there were several campaigns to change the name, though all failed”
RXL7 TIL that an analysis of over 1300 Oscar acceptance speeches showed that Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God!
KYk7G TIL that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in Vatican City, meaning 0.39% of the country's population has played the game