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TIL that a "sense of impending doom" is a medically recognised symptom, and can indicate certain conditions.

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rPjW TIL that New England is the least religious region of the US, despite its Puritan past
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0Na1 TIL Texas has it’s own dialect of German, and it’s going extinct
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