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GYBpE TIL researchers discovered that applying a sonogram to a person's skull and stimulating specific brain regions can alter their mood. One researcher described applying it to his own head and later feeling like he had a martini. They hope to develop a sonogram-based device to treat mood disorders.
dMb8 TIL that Al Queda’s strategy involved specifically using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
KYyO6 TIL that Queen Anne of Great Britain had seven miscarriages, five stillbirths, two children who died shortly after birth, two who died in infancy, and one who died at age 11. She left no heirs and was succeeded by her second cousin.
jNYwN TIL Mulan is very likely not ethnically Han. The story is set in the Northern Wei dynasty whose language was Tuoba, an extinct language that had mongolic and Turkic elements. She is believed to be of XianBei ethnicity, a nomadic people that once resided in the Eastern Eurasian Steppes.
WkY4B TIL owls make almost no noise from flying, even when tested in a room with multiple microphones