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TIL: It Is Possible To Only Have High Blood Pressure In The Doctor’s Office And It Is Called “White Coat Syndrome”

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pYGlO TIL children exposed to unstable housing had more frequent adverse childhood experiences and, later in life, higher risks of depression, suicide attempts, alcoholism, and smoking
Y7Y0d TIL Charles Lockwood was a high-level executive for Roberts Finance in Argentina who was kidnapped in 1973 by a militia & held prisoner for 54 days before being ransomed for $1m. Roughly 2 yrs later the militia kidnapped him again but this time he was ransomed for $10m. He left Argentina after that.
69gDZ TIL in 1994, an entire Fantastic Four movie was made and never released, just so the studio didn’t lose the rights to the IP.
aG5L TIL: In 2002 a man in Florida going through a messy divorce went fishing, caught a sailfish, and put his wedding ring on the fishes nose. Two years later, he caught the same fish again with the wedding ring still attached.
l7gx1 TIL that since 1982 the Alaska Permanent Fund (funded by oil and mining revenues) pay a Permanent Fund Dividend to each resident of Alaska