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TIL the rate of PTSD in adults who were in foster care for one year between the ages of 14–18 was found to be higher than that of combat veterans.

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4k6Qa TIL, to study honesty, researchers called people at random and asked them to flip a coin, promising them €10 if they flipped tails. Fewer than half the subjects reported flipping tails, suggesting that almost no one lied.
6E0NW TIL Active since at least 1998, "in concert with the CIA and FBI, (NSA's) TAO is used to intercept laptops purchased online, divert them to secret warehouses where spyware and hardware is installed, and send them on to customers."
GYXRJ TIL a villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade to crack walnuts for a quarter century, until he saw the grenade in a government flyer
ADOjl TIL that Russia and the US are only 2.4 mi (3.9 km) apart due to the positioning of the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Diomede (US) and Big Diomede (Russia) are in view of each other, and in winter it’s technically possible to walk across the ice from US to Russia.
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