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

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9pm7 TIL The only upside-down stoplight in the world is in Syracuse, NY because some persistent local Irish kids didn’t want the red (British) above green (Ireland).
OGBr6 TIL Perfect squares cannot end in 2, 3, 7, or 8
yQ7D8 TIL violence spreads through communities in a pattern similar to infectious disease, and interrupting its spread at critical points has lead to dramatic reductions in killings in crime-plagued areas.
loJpV TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.
nmxb TIL That “Steak and Blowjob Day” is a thing, March 14th. Who needs Christmas anymore?