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mMGx TIL: It Is Possible To Only Have High Blood Pressure In The Doctor’s Office And It Is Called “White Coat Syndrome”
klyW TIL Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
jbPE TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds
Wl8B TIL an orangutan named Pony was used as a sex slave in a village in Borneo. She would automatically ‘assume the position’ whenever a man neared her. It took over a year for authorities to free her because she was a favorite of the locals who fought against her release.
neNJo TIL humans are not the only primate that curse. Chimps do it to. In project Washoe, chimps being taught sign language internalized taboos around the toilet, with the sign “dirty” representing something shameful. They started using that sign as an admonition or to express anger, like a swear word.