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TIL Virtual Reality Therapy helps in PTSD Treatment

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Yp1kx TIL there were proposals in the 17th century to use an inverted exclamation point (¡) to signify irony in a sentence, a simpler version of the internet’s “/s” for sarcasm
XEjOD TIL Casu Marzu is a sheep milk cheese where live maggots are introduced to partially decompose it before human consumption. And it’s only available on the black market.
ZOJY TIL that the guy who wrote The Anarchist Cookbook became a teacher, denounced his book, and was unaware of how many perpetrators of violent crimes had a copy of his book in their possession.
OoEAa TIL the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft in 1976 at 3,529 km/h (2,193 mph), a record which still hasn't been broken in 44 years
BgMLd TIL that Marry Mallon ('Typhoid Mary') lived in forced quarantine for the last twenty years of her life in an Island just off of New York ('North Brother Island')