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TIL Long-lasting mental health isn’t normal. Only 17% of 11-38 year olds experience no mental disorders.

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awmGJ TIL that a top-level Dutch football club signed up an 18-month old for a ten year contract, after his father posted a video of the boy kicking a ball into his toy chest 3 times in a row. After scribbling his signature for the club, the toddler celebrated with a glass of orange juice
yQoNa TIL: The Soviets tried to poison the leader of Afghanistan but the Coca-Cola they put it in saved his life.
nYrY TIL Harris Rosen, a man that helped Disney launch The Contemporary and The Polynesian hotels was fired right after the projects because he wasn’t a “company man.” He went on to create a scholarship fund for his city with 11MM of his own funds. Crime rates have plummeted and graduation rates soared.
mx6BE TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader who was born when the Soviet Union already existed.
yrLe TIL that a woman accidentally dropped her engagement ring into a homeless man’s change cup. The man, Billy Ray Harris, returned the ring to the woman. A fund was started by the woman and her husband to raise money for Harris. Three months later they had raised over $190,000.