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TIL that doctors at Yale University found that make-believe games are the "forerunners of the important capacity for forms of self-regulation including reduced aggression, delay of gratification, civility, and empathy.”

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9LpM TIL three masked instigators at a peaceful protest in Quebec were found out to be undercover police. Protestors figured it out when they noticed the boots they were wearing were the same as police.
gxdW TIL there’s a positive correlation between the obesity rate of a population and the number of Walmarts servicing that population
v19W4 TIL that in April 2021, Jaleel White, who played Steve Urkel in 'Family Matters', launched his own cannabis business. The ItsPurpl line, which would be produced in partnership with 710 labs, would include the 'Purple Urkle' and 'Stefan' strains.
e0gE5 TIL On D-Day, Paratrooper John Steele became stuck hanging from his parachute on the church steeple for two hours during the battle for Sainte Mère Église. A statue of him still hangs there today.
1aDZP TIL that during the Battle of Boulogne on 23 May 1940, a shell from the British ship HMS Venomous made a German tank turn "over and over, like a child doing a cart-wheel".