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TIL playing Tetris following a traumatic event prevents the brain from having flashbacks and creating fearful memories

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epKMk TIL tetanus bacteria releases toxins that block your nerve receptors (mainly in your spinal cord) and cause muscle spasms.
71Pp TIL Dust from the Sahara desert has produced a massive carbon sink in the Bahamas, and humans could mimic nature by artificially repeating the process elsewhere
6EA6l TIL that top American businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship
Z8Pe4 TIL Anthropologist Don Kulick spent thirty years of research into the death of Tayap, the native language in Gapun, a remote village in Papua New Guinea. Kulick was threatened by local bandits, and a villager lost his life, which meant Kulick had to stop his work
6D7X TIL that officially the last words spoken on the moon were “God willing, we shall return.”, but were actually “All right, let’s get this mother out of here and go home.”.