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TIL music therapy can be used to help combat depression and heal trauma, and listening to music has been shown to reduce heart rate, lower blood pressure and decrease stress levels

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rR1Ex TIL a rodent that was believed to be extinct for 113 years casually showed up on the handrail at the front porch of an ecolodge in Colombia and let researchers photograph it for two hours before disappearing into the night, after which it was never seen again
5Edp TIL that in the 70s the US government sprayed Paraquat (a poisonous herbicide) on marijuana fields in Mexico in order to help stop drug issues in Mexico however much of the treated plants showed up in the US market
PYYAV TIL that in the 1960's, a Donald Duck cartoon was deemed 'prior art' and used to deny a patent for using foam balls to raise a ship from the water.
4P9R TIL fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.
kJeyd TIL that after WW1 the German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and was allowed to seek asylum in the Netherlands. He lived there until his death in 1941.