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TIL Sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia, depression and anxiety

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oByWo TIL 3 billion people still cook over open fires and millions of people die each year from smoke inhalation.
b9rna TIL about the Morris Worm, a computer program developed in 1988 meant to map out the internet. Instead, it basically crashed the entire web.
kOg54 TIL The 320th VLA was the only black combat unit to take part in the D-Day landings . The mission of the 621-man assault force was to raise hydrogen-filled barrage balloons to protect assaulting infantry and armor from being strafed by enemy aircraft .
N7rwN TIL elephant shrews were called that because they are shrews with flexible noses like an elephant, but genetic analysis discovered they are not true shrews and are actually more closely related to elephants
Ev7W TIL including humans, all living creatures emit a weak light from their entire body in a process known as “biophoton emission.”