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TIL that exercise can be just as powerful as anti-depressants when treating depression

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Zpyma TIL Bill Murray doesn't have an agent and only fields offers via a voice mailbox that he rarely checks. Apparently this is how he missed out on films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monsters Inc, The Squid and the Whale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Little Miss Sunshine, he never checked
bdB7 TIL Mao Zedong, in a power-play against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in 1958, forced him to conduct a meeting in a pool. 200+ pound Khrushchev, who could not swim, was forced to wear floaters in the kiddie side of the pool while Mao swam laps and conducted the meeting.
v1QXR TIL after the Ivory Coast qualified for the 2006 World Cup, Striker Didier Drogba made a desperate plea to combatants, asking them to lay down their arms, a plea which was answered with a cease fire after five years of civil war.
yVVMl TIL a bankrupted con-artist from Oregon was able to purchase a bank license and opened a offshore bank in Grenada by claiming to own a 4 pound ruby worth $20 million dollars and a appraisal document proving its worth. The ruby was owned by a man in California who didn't know the scammer.
vPXXK TIL: Only one major conspirator of the failed July 20th (Operation Valkyrie) plot to assassinate Hitler survived World War II. He went on to become a leading figure in NATO.