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TIL exercise can "reduce the persistence of previously learned fear"

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Wk47d TIL : Otar Taktakishvili was urged by his mother to enter the contest for Georgian ssr anthem so he wrote the music, submitted his entry and forgot about the contest. He only found out that his music had been selected when he stood outside the concert hall and heard his anthem being played.
LvBP TIL that after being ordered by court to pay $3.6M in fines, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (Pirate Bay Co-Founder) wrote them an ‘IOU’
Gy6G TIL an experiment sponsored the Quaker Oats corporation fed 73 mentally disabled children radioactive oatmeal in order to track “how nutrients were digested”. The children were told they were joining a science club in exchange for larger portions of food and trips to baseball games.
Z8PXY TIL - Tony Hawk Performed 50 Tricks in Celebration of Turning 50. The 50 tricks were among the 100+ tricks that he created since he started skating in '77.
LQ6MV TIL that Mary, Queen of Scots, smuggled her dog to her execution under her skirts. The dog tried to stay near her corpse and afterward, died when it refused to eat.