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TIL about Anxiety Sensitivity: refers to the fear of anxiety-related behaviors or sensations and mistakenly perceiving them as dangerous. This leads to heightened anxiety or fear due to misinterpretation of bodily sensations like nausea and palpitations

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X0ppP TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.
jD0j TIL babies are (probably) genetically engineered to look more like their fathers than their mothers, so that fathers will be inclined to believe their paternity.
E6mp TIL A penny costs 2.4 cents to manufacture.
y0XX TIL a 52Hz frequency whale call from an unidentified species has been heard since the 80’s; it is thought that only one whale uses this frequency, who scientists call the “World’s Loneliest Whale.”
Gbm4 TIL that Adobe doesn’t like when people use “Photoshop” as a verb. Instead of saying “That image was photoshopped,” they want you to say “The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.”