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TIL eye contact helps people determine trustworthiness of others, through pupil mimicry and the release of oxytocin when eye contact is made.

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gWYX TIL that thirteenth century emperor Frederick II attempted to raise children without human contact to see if they developed a natural language. The children did not survive.
jN5xj TIL that in the Middle Ages bestiality was compared to homosexuality not to make homosexuality look bad, but rather to malign bestiality (previously seen as a minor sin akin to masturbation)
nebG7 TIL: when St. Jerome translated the Bible to common Latin, he made the forbidden fruit an apple as a pun.
neoM9 TIL That the man tho says "Bye, Have a Beautiful Time" at the end of American Dad episodes was the former security officer at the office building where Family Guy and American Dad! were produced.
rn11 TIL a colleague of Steve Jobs said: “He’s a very sensitive guy. That’s one of the things that makes…his rudeness so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.”