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TIL humans produce fewer tears as they get older

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ZpRxB TIL many media outlets follow a formula designed to trigger outrage by spotlighting symbolic threats, villainizing “the other side,” and using emotionally charged language to keep you angry, loyal, and clicking. This is called the Outrage Industrial Complex.
8eRnP TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
6E5MZ TIL that the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring African slaves to the US was interviewed in the 1930s
wLgm8 TIL When the Chinese migrated overseas to California in the 1800s, secret society chapters migrated with them. The chapters were known as tongs, from the Chinese word meaning assembly hall.
jJap TIL The Final Countdown’s 2000 dance remix had a misprint leading to countdown being spelt as cuntdown