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TIL Research shows that developing resilience and fighting back against anxiety can be a matter of "unlearning learned helplessness."

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NXBEP TIL testicles have taste buds that can taste Umami.
kJvme TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport
ADbWB TIL Limewire developed a subscription-based music-streaming service called ‘Grapevine,’ but industry execs wouldn’t accept the inevitable, and chose to sue them into obsolescence instead. Years later, Spotify arrived.
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.
DQamr TIL in the Battle of Kartarpur 1,800 Sikhs under Guru Hargobind fought an army of at least 52,000 Mughals who were led by an ex Sikh general, the governor of Peshwar, and governor of Jalandhar. The Sikh won and killed at least 50,000 Mughals.