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TIL Navy SEALs brains are trained to alter the way the amygdala processes fear.

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4XY4a TIL In the '70s UK singer Nick Lowe desperately wanted out of his record contract and so recorded an intentionally awful and ridiculous song called 'Bay City Rollers We Love You'. It was a massive hit with Roller fans who didn't realize it was a spoof song and Lowe had to continue in his contract
gV0W TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day in the same year
E1g4X TIL that Saturday Night Live has a branch show abroad SNL Korea
Wkkd TIL: Continuum, a magazine created to deny the existence of AIDS, shut down when all of it’s editors died of AIDS.
neVbd TIL About the legend of Wan Hu, a supposed Chinese man who became the “first astronaut” in 2000BC by tying 47 firework rockets to a chair. Dressed in regal splendour, he had 47 servants light each of the rockets and then took off as they ran for cover. When the smoke cleared, he was gone.