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TIL Saffron Powerfully Modulates Anxiety and Depression

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rRDK4 TIL that Encrochat was a encrypted messaging network, that run on custom phones, used by criminals to plan drug deals, murders and extortion plots. Each phone costed €1000, plus €1500 for a contract of six months, and had a “panic button” that would erase all data.
4k9wg TIL In 1997, a 47-year-old man from Houston, Texas, decided to make it his life's mission to visit every Starbucks location in the world. By 2019, he had already visited 15,000 Starbucks shops and spent at least $150,000 on the hobby.
4XK6w TIL Buzz Aldrin, who landed on the moon in 1969, also became the oldest person to visit the South Pole at 86 years of age in 2016.
8AKa TIL extraterrestrial life could be found in our lifetime through the detection of biosignature gases.
ADAdx TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, a public monument in London commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.