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TIL that playing TETRIS soon after viewing traumatic material, reduces the amount of flashbacks experienced the next week. This is thought to be because the game interrupts memories of the sights and sounds.

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Yp9bW TIL the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built as a memorial to WW1 veterans in 1923 and will be the first stadium to host 3 different Olympics games.
7NdP TIL Queen guitarist Brian May built his primary guitar, the “Red Special”, when he was sixteen. It contains parts from a motorbike, bicycle, knitting needle, and the wood is from an 18th century fireplace mantel
Gpdj TIL that in 1916 an amendment was proposed to the Constitution that all acts of war would be put to a national vote. Anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the US Army.
JYgM1 TIL After the deaths of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy became the sole patriarch to the Kennedy family. On the same day his 12-year-old son was having his cancer-laden leg amputated, Ted had to rush down to lead his niece, RFK’s daughter, down the aisle at her wedding.
b9o0a TIL that a Stanford professor did the calculations for the famous scene in Silicon Valley where they figure out the fastest way to jerk off all the guys in the room, and later published a paper detailing the math behind it