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TIL Humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. Every other fear is learned.

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oRNj7 TIL Vulture Bees exist, a type of bee that feeds on carrion
P1EDe TIL In 2020, the Polish Chancellery of the Prime Minister added the video game "This War of Mine" (based on wartime atrocities in Bosnia during the 90s) to the recommended reading list in Polish high schools. The first initiative in the world to add a video game to recommended readings in school.
NXj6N TIL the early Republican party had a paramilitary organization called "Wide Awakes" who marched for the election of Abe Lincoln, protect Republican party meetings, and equal rights between blacks and whites.
aw6mZ TIL There was a cannon designed to simultaneously shoot two cannonballs connected with a chain to "mow down the enemy somewhat as a scythe cuts wheat". During tests the Gilleland cannon effectively mowed down trees, tore up a cornfield, knocked down a chimney and killed an unfortunate cow.
JYaVB TIL in 1944 a 14-year-old was executed by electric chair. George Stinney Jr, a black boy, was accused of murdering 2 white girls. The trial was flimsy, and the jury decided in 10 minutes to execute the teen. In 2014, his conviction was vacated.