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TIL that keeping a journal is not lame; instead, it is therapeutic, and it can improve not only your mental health but physical health as well.

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Brx9y TIL that a "moment" is a medieval unit of time equivalent to about 90 seconds today.
v1MDR TIL that Hallet's Cove, NY was renamed Astoria to persuade John Jacob Astor, then the wealthiest man in the United States, to invest in the neighborhood. He only invested $500.
jVjR TIL the US Govt has a “whole world” simulation, which they use to predict global reactions to geopolitical events
AvN7 TIL of Argos, Odysseus’s dog in the works of Homer. After 20 years of waiting for Odysseus to return home, the dog is the only one to recognize him, he wags his tail and Odysseus sheds a tear, and Argos dies after meeting him one last time.
VBJND TIL that Willie Littlechild, the former Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, attended a residential indigenous school and was the first “status Indian”to get a law degree in Alberta.