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TIL Manfred Clyne proved human emotions to be transmissible via a recording of pressure sensitive clicks. Aborigines in Central Australia were able to correctly identify emotions from sounds derived from the touch of white urban Americans

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VB4mD TIL- the Mental Health Systems Act, passed int the USA in 1980 had a very short life.
GboN TIL when the Soviet Union launched the 1st satellite (Sputnik) into space in 1957, the event created such a profound public shock in the US that, in less than a year, congress had increased education funding six-fold and Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act - creating NASA.
Z8E4R TIL British General Charles O'Hara had the unfortunate "distinction" of surrendering not only to George Washington at Yorktown, but Napoleon Bonaparte at Toulon as well.
1e8W TIL that in 2001, hundreds of thousands of people across the world listed their religion on censuses as “Jedi”, a movement so big that it overtook major established religions, becoming the second most popular religion in New Zealand and surpassing the 400,000 people mark in the UK.
16GM7 TIL one bite of the beaked sea snake that is fully loaded has the ability to kill 52 men and only three drops of their toxic venom have the ability to kill eight people! Without treatment, the venom will kill a person within eight hours.