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TIL All thirteen women who participated in the ‘Shock the Puppy’ experiment (a variation of the Stanley Milgram infamous experiment) obeyed right up until the end, while the six students who refused to go on were all men.

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7kOZ TIL that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has recovered Apollo 11’s engines from the ocean floor
ryPe TIL of Arthur Storer, who had a comet named after him until Edmund Halley predicted the comet’s return.
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