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TIL that playing Tetris after a traumatic event can help prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms.

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VMWX0 TIL The FBI’s Indian Country program includes over 140 special agents and 40 victim specialists in 36 field offices. Indeed, 33% of all FBI victim specialists and 50% of all FBI child and adolescent forensic interviewers work directly with victims and families on more than 200 Indian reservations.
V8X0 TIL that today’s children could have shorter average life spans than their parents, because so many suffer from obesity.
p88pA You carry around enough bacteria to fill a large soup can
8a5a8 TIL that 19th century New York City was so lousy with oysters, they were typically sold for cheap from street carts for the working class. The remaining shells were then used as pavement for roads, crushed into mortar paste for construction, or burned for lime.
XEMWP TIL the film The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck-open pressure release valve, aired only 12 days before the 3 Mile Island Meltdown, caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck open pressure release valve