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TIL our brain has shrunk over the past 20,000 years. On top of the gradual effects of modernisation on our brain size, chronic stress and anxiety will, if not attended to, shrink your brain further and far more rapidly than you might imagine.

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LkgGP TIL that East Germany invested the machinery, housing, farm training, and infrastructure necessary to increase the coffee production in Vietnam, in exchange for 50% of the Vietnamese coffee harvest for 20 years. The first usable harvest occurred in 1990, one year after the Berlin Wall fell.
4dNN TIL Mario wears a hat because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.
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NPNe TIL of Howard Hill, considered by many to be the greatest archer of all time. In 1938 he made the most iconic archery shot in literature: Robin Hood splitting a target-embedded arrow with his own. He is also the first white man to kill an elephant using only a bow and arrow.