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TIL On a trip to Congo, an anthropologist played 11 excerpts of Western songs to 40 Pygmies. The emotional cues in songs, which Westerners pick up on, didn't mean the same to the Pygmies: They didn't hear the shrieking strings of the Psycho theme as stressful

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