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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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kOlDm TIL the Kent State shootings in 1970 were the impetus for the band Devo to form, and 3 of their 6 original members were Kent State students at the time of the shootings.
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