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TIL playing Tetris after experiencing a traumatising event helps to prevent the development of traumatic memories, thus making flashbacks from PTSD much less severe

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VMY6G TIL: White people are only 6.5% of the world’s population
mxApv TIL There are 41 countries that recognize sign language as an official language
GYGZ4 TIL that the X-100, the car JFK was killed while riding in, was not retired after his assassination. The X-100 was cleaned up and rebuilt with additional safety features, and wasn't taken out of service until 1977. Johnson, Ford, Nixon, and Carter all rode in the car too.
ANawg TIL The longest recreational trail in North America, and the world, is not the Appalachian or Pacific Coast Trail, it is the The Trans Canada Trail. It is 15,000 miles long and it stretches from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans.
9YQy7 TIL of a serial arsonist in California who worked as an arson investigator and fire captain, and would commit arson on his way to and from arson investigator conferences. Before his arrest, he even wrote a novel about a firefighter who was a serial arsonist.