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TIL of patient SM who due to a genetic defect of amygdala is unable to experience fear. Described as very outgoing, extremely friendly & disinhibited, she has an abnormally high tendency to approach & engage in physical contact with others & is greatly impaired in recognizing negative social cues

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PYZgG TIL “that when we see really ancient images of far off and very, very old objects, that light has traveled from that star through the universe for sometimes billions of years and the first object it hit was our telescope detector.”
9w8kM TIL that in the 1920s a German architect had a plan to drain the Mediterranean sea . The plan called for building a gargantuan dam across the straits of Gibraltar . if successful, this new land connecting Europe and Africa together would have been called Atlantropa .
LQEjV TIL a Reading, PA Funereal Home has kept the mummified corpse of “Stoneman Willie” for 128-years, and he will finally be laid to rest this fall.
LngQ TIL: that when women were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in London and forced to sit in a “no speaking section”, William Lloyd Garrison, the conference’s keynote speaker, refused to give his speech and sat with the women, “dominating the convention without saying a word”.
low8r TIL that the magyars that raided the european continent were the Dark Age's version of the Zodiac Killer. They believed that whoever they killed in battle, he would serve them in the afterlife. An example is related to the legend of the Horn of Lehel.