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TIL that there's a mental disorder in which individuals may deliberately avoid having fun. It's commonly called Cherophobia.

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ANkZw TIL we can inherit traits from our parents and even emotions like fear. From Science, a recent study "found that heritable changes in plant flowering time and other traits were the result of epigenetics alone."
jNWVp TIL of Georgy Malenkov. Though he led the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, he eventually lost an internal power struggle with Khrushchev. He was demoted to be a manager of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan and lived out the rest of his life in utter obscurity
YwmP TIL The allies used a ghost inflatable army to trick Hitlers forces.
lnPB TIL a corporate news company has made a ‘portrait of a redditor’, who is 'skeptical, geeky’ and 'liberal’ and observed 'Whatever the Reddit “hivemind” enjoys will be rewarded with upvotes’
ADAJB TIL New York City has entire fake buildings that act as vents for the underground subway