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TIL People who work in slaughterhouses can and do suffer from PTSD

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xVVR7 TIL that as a part of his celibacy experiments, Mahatma Gandhi used to sleep nude with his young female companions which included his 17 year old grand-niece Mridula Gandhi
mdap TIL a 10-year-old girl accidentally invented a molecule during her fifth grade science class.
b9WAa TIL Only 13 of the 77 restaurants featured on Kitchen Nightmares are still open for business
Q8l6 TIL that in 1860 an 11-year old girl wrote to Presidential Nominee Abraham Lincoln, urging him to grow a beard, as “..ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for [you] and then [you] would be President.” Lincoln not only wrote back, but had a full beard by his Inauguration.
X5MP TIL that rats will help out a comrade in need. Through testing a two rats, one restrained and one free, researchers found that rats experience emotion beyond emotional contagion. Even going as far to conquer their immobilizing fear and helping another rat in distress.