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TIL that Skinner, the psychologist responsible for operant conditioning (training animals using reward and punishment), also tried to help the WWII war effort by training pigeons to help guide missiles

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Z8JAY TIL of the FBI's US highway serial killer initiative. According to reports, at any given time, there are numerous serial killers doubling as long haul drivers that are able to kill with little chance of being caught.
p8XNZ TIL about the Bodo League Massacre of 1950, where 60,000-200,000 civilians suspected of being communists (many of whom had no connection with communism) were executed in South Korea during the Korean War
MeB78 TIL it is unknown if Amerigo Vespucci ever learned that the New World would come to be named in his honor by cartographers prior to his death.
xVgP5 TIL There's a company in England that makes ice cream from breast milk.
gxnW TIL: Before the Terracotta army, when chinese emperors died all their servants were killed to aid them in the afterlife. Building the terracotta army spared emperor Qin from killing more than 8000 people.