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TIL - Schlitterbahn settlement exposes unjust damages laws - the death of a 10 year old boy and the family

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d85kr TIL STOP is an acronym for a short mindfulness which stands for Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed. Its an exercise that can be used when you feel stressed, overwhelmed or when you notice that your mind is just all over the place as a means to ground you back in focusing on what you were doing.
16GKd TIL Saban's Big Bad Beetleborgs, Mystic Knights, VR Troopers and Masked Rider were all popular kids' shows in the 1990's with high ratings, each were canceled due to Saban running out of footage from the original shows since each of these shows were based on the Japanese show, Metal Hero Tokusatsu
jNZZv TIL American artist Chris Burden Had himself shot in the arm by a friend, as a part of a performance art piece called "Shoot"(1971) and when questioned about the work on BBC in 2012, he said "I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie".
LkMXp TIL of Inmate 4859, Witold Pilecki, a Polish intelligence officer that voluntarily entered Auschwitz to gather intel. He escaped and reported the atrocities occurring at Auschwitz. His report was dismissed under the belief that he was exaggerating what was occurring at Auschwitz.
gr9MD TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient