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TIL that Domestic Horses Can Detect Negative Emotion in Human Facial Expressions

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grWy9 TIL that you don’t need a state driver’s license to compete in NASCAR.
LPav TIL the Spanish Inquisition ended witch trials in Spain a full century before the rest of Europe because it required scientific proof of witchcraft - not just eyewitness accounts.
nako TIL that a ‘micromort’ is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries (for example, going skydiving is 7 micromorts, meaning that there is a 7/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip)
0daNv TIL 'Heroin' (diacetylmorphine) is named after the German word 'Heroisch', meaning Heroic. It was trademarked by Bayer Pharmaceuticals in 1898, though they weren't the first to discover it.
a8BoN TIL that Saturn's rings are only 100 million years old, making them younger than the dinosaurs or the Appalachian Mountains.