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TIL That the over-stimulation often caused by modern society can result in depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders by building a tolerance to chemicles like dopamine, serotonin, and melatonin.

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PYNmG TIL that Gore-Tex was discovered as attempt to reduce cable isolation costs
N7wK8 TIL "Earth Simulator" is one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet with nearly 35 trillion operations per second and it's used to model Earth's Climate
gMoJb TIL the first hostile aerial bombardment on U.S. soil happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white police forces took to the air to drop incendiary bombs and dynamite on the business district in the black neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the "Black Wall Street."
4E1N TIL that inserting swear words into other words (e.g. “abso-fucking-lutely”) is referred to as expletive infixiation.
GYl01 TIL 62 of the 97 people who were on the Hindenburg when it crashed survived the disaster.