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TIL that psychopaths show immunity to "contagious yawning", where seeing someone else yawn makes you yawn as well.

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YZmP TIL that a study from Australia found sniffer dogs produce false positives 80% of the time. “No test which has an 80 per cent error rate could be considered a reasonable basis on which to conduct an intrusive public search of a citizen going about their daily business.”
pPY8 TIL a man was arrested for not showing his I.D. to police when comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity during a performance in L.A. They rode in the same cop car together. That man, was young George Carlin.
RpkQ TIL that Mars soil can create fluorocarbons, a greenhouse gas. This can be used to heat the cold planet up, one of the first steps of terraforming.
5Yp8R TIL that in 1984, Disney was almost bought by MCA, the then-parent company of Universal, with the deal only falling through because of Disney’s insistence that Ron Miller, the Disney CEO at the time, be MCA president.
8J9a TIL that “Whose Line is it Anyways” streams all of its episodes on its website for free