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TIL about cherophobia - the fear of (or anxiety about) happiness.

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XEQ9D TIL in spite of rumours of their enemity, Salieri and Mozart composed together a four-minute piece of music, that was considered lost until a copy was found in 2015
ADGj7 TIL about that using ionized water in farming deters insects and rejuvenates the soil eliminating the need for pesticides or fertilizers, demonstrated by a man who cured himself from liver chlorosis
9YmG6 TIL that in 1982 Jack Black appeared in a video game TV ad for Activision's Pitfall!
j6Jvp TIL the origin of Sniper. It comes from the verb "to snipe", originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India in reference to shooting snipes, an extremely challenging game bird for hunters due to its alertness, camouflaging color and erratic flight behavior.
KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.