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TIL playing Tetris after a traumatic event can help reduce PTSD symptoms

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VM4e4 TIL that there are 3 trillion trees on Earth, which is more trees than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy and cells in the human brain.
Py8Z TIL JFK’s sister Rosemary Kennedy, was born mentally disabled because during her birth, the doctor was not immediately available and the nurse ordered Rose Kennedy to keep her legs closed, forcing the baby’s head to stay in the birth canal for two hours…resulting in a harmful loss of oxygen.
kO9eB TIL in the USA uses spelled rather than spelt when it comes to the past tense of spell.
E1A6p TIL that NASA thought Sally Ride needed 100 tampons for a week in space "just to be safe."
8eAMX TIL that It's All in the Game, a 1958 Billboard #1 song, was written by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, who moonlighted as a musician.