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TIL Sacha Baron Cohen carried a bulletproof clipboard when he filmed one segment of Who is America, out of fear that the participants would shoot him.

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4kX85 TIL Pavlov's dog experiment was widely misunderstood because of mistranslation and misconstruction. Pavlov never used a bell to condition dogs to salivate, because a bell was an imprecise control. Instead he used tones, duration of tones and electric shock to study physiological reflexes.
QJBDL TIL romance novelist Danielle Steel wrote one science fiction novel, which was still a romance but with a clone
wLrN6 TIL that during WW2 Japanese people were fully convinced that American soldiers were devils that 'devoured women and babies'; so they jumped off cliffs to kill themselves and avoid being captured.
07n1 TIL Bruce Lee was born in both the HOUR and the YEAR of the Dragon
j6N4p TIL bone fragments from the Early Miocene discovered in 1978 provide evidence that fully terrestrial mammals once lived in what is now New Zealand. The animal is currently unnamed