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TIL about The Backfire Effect where your brain responds to new information that goes against your worldview as if you were being physically attacked

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mxK9P TIL in 1911, a "witchcat" appeared near Pottsville PA. It caused hens to crow like rooster and pigs to bark like dogs. Thomas Howell, the man who saw it, died along with eight cows and horses, the deaths attributed to a hex. The family crafted a golden bullet to shoot the cat and break the hex.
VMJyB TIL Japan's infamous suicide rate is only 4.2% higher than the US's, and their male rate is lower.
VMb8Q TIL of the term Fellow Traveller, used to refer to people who sympathize with the ideology of an organization and cooperate with it, but are not members of it.
v1rGB TIL when Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star, he ended the lives of 1.7 million Imperial personnel, and 250,000 civilians (mostly contractors, prisoners and catering staff.)
rN5De TIL the image of a ninja dressed all in black comes from the convention of depicting ninjas as wearing the costume of stagehands in Japanese kabuki theater