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TIL That in Brazil when a kid is lost on the beach people start to clap around him so the parents can find him easy

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yYwJ TIL that playing TETRIS soon after viewing traumatic material, reduces the amount of flashbacks experienced the next week. This is thought to be because the game interrupts memories of the sights and sounds.
4XVwJ TIL: Disney World has its own government, allowing the corporation control over sewage, roads, building permits, and many other facets of municipal control in the area. This includes issuing themselves liquor licenses.
rR89M TIL that Metallica and a couple other rock bands played to 1.6Mil people in Moscow in 1991
D1j0e TIL Tennessee was the only state in the USA that the Emancipation proclamation didn't cover. Instead the state chose to ratify the 14th amendment on their own in 1866.
oRWEE TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.