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TIL People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear

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GP5Q TIL Most of Sony’s total global revenue comes from selling life insurance in Japan
OvQ4 TIL in 1943 a German pilot spotted a damaged American B-17 bomber and escorted it to safety. They were reunited 40 years later after an extensive search by Charlie Brown the pilot of the B-17.
KYVE TIL that modern knowledge on how the human body reacts to freezing is based almost exclusively on Nazi human experimentation.
kO7V4 TIL in 2006 a teenage girl secretly pointed a webcam at her bed and left it running all night, hoping to prove to her mother that her father was molesting her. In spite of the video evidence, the jury voted to acquit because they thought the girl "didn't seem upset enough" during her testimony.
b6Bep TIL it was so difficult for the FBi to believe Hitler had committed suicide that they funded a secret program by millions of dollars to find him, with the program being shut down only in 1947