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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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e05wb TIL that the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth at the rate of 3.8cm (about 1.5 inches) per year.
lLXV TIL Taylor Swift once accidentally released 8 seconds of white noise and topped the Canadian iTunes charts
VMYD8 TIL of two boys from Ireland that in 1985 managed to to sneak on to 2 trains, a ferry and a plane taking them from Dublin Ireland, through Wales and England eventually ending up in New York City
rRmXx TIL plants may have a form of vision/sight, and one plant in particular, Boquila trifoliolata, can change its leaf size, color, and shape to match living and/or artificial plants on which it is climbing.
YpaoA TIL that that attributing depression to spontaneously low serotonin is “deeply misleading and unscientific” and 65-80% of people on antidepressants are depressed again within a year.