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TIL that there is a word in Mandarin pronounced “kǎnyé” that literally translates to “big talker”

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QJX1M TIL that in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where an undergraduate student was humiliated and subjected to "brutalizing psychological experiments". The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.
4kDNN TIL about the true crime case of Shane coffey & how he meticulously planned to murder a woman in the UK after learning twice that she was talking to other males besides him & travelled all the way from Boston to the 🇬🇧 with a concealed 🔪 to carry out his plan only to be beaten up by her brother
aVJM TIL Male iguanas can detect their owner’s menstrual cycles, will show dominance over her guests, and will try to mate with her
dle7 TIL the man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.
E1gkw TIL bacteria can get viruses