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TIL the NHS has begun prescribing fishing as a treatment for depression and anxiety

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nWwNW Today I learned that you need 64,000 gallons of oil per year to run the amount of wind turbines that match the energy output of 1 900 mw nuclear power plant.
OYJ7 TIL each feather on a War Bonnet represents a good deed.
k75g TIL that in 1950 ‘One of the largest human experiments in history’ was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco by the US military in a germ-warfare simulation and Nuremberg Code violation that utilized the Bay Area’s iconic fog to help spread two kinds of bacteria over the city.
V4bZ TIL after watching Saddam Hussein’s execution, a 10-year-old from Texas hanged himself. At least six other suicides took place around the world at that time, and are considered “copycat” hangings.
XEbrR TIL Shigeru Miyamoto got the inspiration to create Starfox when walking through the gates at Fushimi Inari shrine. He thought it would be great if they could fly through the gates. The word Inari means fox and Starfox was born.