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BrDBe TIL: Children who have sensory processing issues and take part in “heavy work” activities (proprioceptive input) such as pushing, lifting, or carrying heavy objects, experience an increased ability to focus, improved motor skills, and decreased behavioral defensiveness.
5VyXD TIL there haven’t been any wild flamingos in Florida for >100 years
OoMMa TIL a man named Andrew Taylor ate only potatoes for an entire year and lost 117lbs.
8egPK TIL in 1914, 4-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff was shipped via parcel post. At 32 cents, her parents found it cheaper than a train ticket. Just under the 50lb limit, May rode in the train's mail compartment with a stamp on her jacket and was delivered to her grandmother by the mail clerk on duty.
wogeo TIL On June 22nd 1940, After defeating France,Hitler had the armistice signed in the same carriage where Germany surrendered in 1918.He then destroyed the site, leaving only Marshal Foch’s statue intact to be only honouring a wasteland.