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TIL Criminal psychopaths don’t involuntarily feel emotional empathy for others, but seem to be able to intentionally turn it on and feel it.

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e7lk TIL that HSBC was actually founded by and for drug trafficers bringing opium into China
dyW9 TIL University of California at Davis is one of the largest breeders and patent holders of strawberry varieties in the world
6E49l TIL Avocados are toxic to horses; they can cause respiratory distress, heart failure, and death.
oYZK TIL that in Soviet Russia, rebellious teenagers who mimicked the Beatles’ hair were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations
wo886 TIL that 7,000 years ago a vast lake, known as Lake Mega Chad covered much of the current Sahara desert in north-central Africa. At more than 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles) at its peak, it was larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today.