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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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lopMG TIL Someone really used to live like Robinson Crusoe
9YMAm TIL Chernobyl has been safe to visit since 2011 and that most of the danger is not from radiation but from unmaintained structures.
KYGDG TIL a man survived two separate bear attacks in one day, After the first attack, where he was bitten on the head and arms, he played dead to make the bear lose interest. Despite the ordeal, he walked three miles to his truck, only to be attacked again by the same bear and miraculously survived.
8eEbG TIL in 1999, the Georgia Institute of Technology created an organic computer out of leech neurons.
wyjo TIL until late 1942, it was common for German U-boats to provide torpedoed survivors with food, water, and the direction of the nearest landmass. This ended when a U-boat towing lifeboats and flying the Red Cross flag was attacked by a US bomber.