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Challenging your brain with problem-solving activities can help curb your anxiety. (Source, Source 2)
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All in the name of stardom.
When a BBC hoax documentary aired on Halloween 1992, it terrified its 11 million viewers so much that the network had over 20,000 complaints. ‘Ghostwatch’ featured well-known BBC presenters, was shot with hand-held cameras, and, though billed as a drama, was mistaken for a real documentary. The experience was so frightening for both viewers and...
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The best way to remember information long-term is to read it out loud to yourself. (Source, Source 2)
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I have used and still use that technique. It does help.
The FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth cult that didn’t even exist. After a worried goth contacted the FBI about the ‘Church of the Hammer’ and their Yahoo group ‘GodHatesGoths,’ concerns grew and the Bureau launched an official investigation. It continued for over 2 years before they realized the entire thing was completely fake and...
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Kids who are ‘cool’ in high school are more likely to have social problems, struggle with substance abuse, and engage in criminal activity as adults. (Source, Source 2)
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^Have seen that happen quite a bit myself.
They start young , cause see how cool they was, when they showed off , how easy it was to shop lift them Sunny's.
Kids who are ‘cool’ in high school are more likely to have social problems, struggle with substance abuse, and engage in criminal activity as adults. (Source, Source 2)
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The ampersand used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. To avoid confusion with the word ‘and’, people added ‘per se’ before its name when reciting the alphabet so that it ended: X, Y, Z, and per se &. Over time, the ‘and per se and’ ran together, and the term ‘ampersand’ was born. ...
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Men who post a lot of selfies on social media sites are more likely to have psychopathic personality traits. (Source, Source 2)
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Well, that leaves me in the clear! 
‘Grimalkin’ is an old word for a domestic cat, especially an elderly female one. It was used often during the 15th-18th centuries, when women tried as witches were accused of having cats as their familiars. Even Shakespeare used it in Macbeth, when one of the three witches refers to her familiar, who takes the form...
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I am now edumacated!
And I always wondered what that line in Macbeth was referring to.
The desire to lay in bed all day is called clinomania. (Source, Source 2)
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Depression-era gangster John Dillinger survived a shootout with the FBI, escaped from jail with a wooden gun, robbed police stations, had plastic surgery to change his face and remove his fingerprints, and led the government on a year-long chase that cost them 4 times the amount he had ever stolen. (Source, Source 2)
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Traffic jams would be greatly reduced if people stopped tailgating. 2017 research from MIT shows that if we all kept an equal distance between both the car in front of and the car behind us, like how birds fly in flocks, we would get to our destinations nearly twice as fast. (Source, Source 2)
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I want to see that work in traffic in real life! I'm a wee bit skeptical.
