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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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Brj0W TIL of earthquake lights. Flashes of lights reported before earthquakes throughout history, only relatively recently photographed and seriously investigated.
D9Bv TIL Minnesota’s program for “sexual psychopaths” has never fully released a patient in its 21-year history, essentially constituting a life sentence.
5wgB TIL that the hubble telescope required the most perfect mirror ever created. Work on it had to be done at night because the vibrations caused by cars driving 4 miles away were enough to cause damage.
QJYdp TIL That there is a community in Cairo, Egypt that collects the trash of the residents of Cairo and recycles upwards of 80% of it. Nicknamed "Garbage City", these mostly Christian residents have been collecting and recycling Cairo's trash for several decades.
rRYNo TIL the CIA ran a LSD sex-house in San Francisco