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TIL Video games can actually make gamers nicer people in real life, contrary to popular belief. Doing bad things inside a video game can make gamers feel guilty about their virtual actions, and they compensate by engaging in morally acceptable actions in real life

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l77XN TIL that the birthrate in the US has declined by 20% since 2007
AdVl TIL in a 1945 German POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany, the Germans demanded that all of the Jews step forward. The ranking US Officer, Roddie Edmonds, ordered all US personnel to step forward, refusing to give up the Jewish soldiers under his command. He was finally honored 70 years later.
6EPlY TIL that a film advocating the flat-Earth theory received the Russia's highest annual television award in 2017 in the nomination "best educational program"
DQAeD TIL that just before WW1 began, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey was heard to say ominously, “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”
JY7xV TIL that after Pearl Harbor three men were trapped deep in the USS West Virginia for 16 days which they marked on the wall of the storeroom they had found shelter in. Soldiers were unable to reach them and no one wanted guard duty near the ship due to the incessant banging of the trapped survivors.