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TIL Virtual Reality Therapy helps in PTSD Treatment

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e0eYg TIL African Elephants are evolving to not have tusks, protecting themselves from poachers but also harming their species
Wkvnd TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout probably allowed early typewriter salesmen to impress their customers by being able to easily type out the example word "typewriter" without having learned the full keyboard layout, because "typewriter" can be spelled purely on the top row of the keyboard.
OoExX TIL people who were deaf from birth and suffer from hallucinations will, instead of hearing voices, see things such as disembodied lips or hands moving or signing at them.
6E9xY TIL of a form of medieval torture, where the victims feet were covered in salt water and then a goat would start licking them. Sometimes the laughter and stress from the intense tickling resulted in a heart attack or a brain hemorrhage.
N7KJE TIL Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum kept painting while hiding from the Nazis, chronicling his life of terror. He was killed in Auschwitz