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wLGB6 TIL that Lemmings do not commit mass suicide, it is a myth started by a 1958 Disney film "White Wilderness" that includes footage of producers throwing Lemmings off a cliff
Oj1L TIL that hydrophobia is a symptom of rabies likely because the infected animal’s ability to transmit the virus would reduce significantly if it could swallow saliva and water
mx65O TIL the brains of long-term drug users "forget" how to produce dopamine naturally because the drugs have been producing it instead. In some cases, natural production never goes back to normal, even after long-term sobriety.
VBRwm TIL that 73% of Americans die in debt with an average of $62000 per person.
nWlGG TIL With the 1971 first encounter with the Tasaday people in the Philippines, western anthropologists became suspicious. Living with limited technology and stone tools, they appeared so close to the stone-age stereotype that anthropologists began suspecting them of being an elaborate hoax