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Today I learned that when maverick Scottish Psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.

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GAnVE TIL: In in 2017, A company in Denmark known as "DONG Energy" lost its mojo after transitioning its operations towards a greener agenda.
xVWwB TIL about Garden-Path Sentences such as "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." which are grammatically correct but almost always read initially as nonsensical
ZpdnB TIL modesty can be fatal. Studies reveal people often refuse to remove wet clothes in freezing conditions, risking deadly hypothermia, or strip for anthrax decontamination showers, delaying lifesaving measures, increasing toxin exposure, and creating challenges for emergency responders.
0w8d1 TIL of Jean Lanfray, a labourer who murdered his wife and children in a drunken rage in Switzerland in 1905. His murders were blamed solely on the influence of absinthe, despite the fact that he’d drunk many other alcoholic beverages. It set off a moral panic, and Switzerland soon banned absinthe.
e0dgk TIL that the reason why 420 is associated with weed is because of some high schoolers in the 1970s. 4:20 pm was the perfect time to goof around and smoke weed. It’s right after school and before parents got home. It just ended up being code for smoking weed.