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TIL anger is classified as a secondary emotion. If somebody is angry, they were likely hurt or scared first.

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edWE TIL there was a record called “Three Minutes of Silence” which was placed in juke boxes. Customers would pay for relief from the music.
Dnwr TIL A truck carrying 21 tons of dynamite exploded after being shot by a sniper outside my hometown leaving a 100 ft crater.
kOOO1 TIL at the Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait, When a Kazakhstani Woman Won a Gold Medal, Organizers Played the Borat Version of Their National Anthem.
69AMJ TIL just two of Dolly Parton’s songs (“Jolene” and “9 to 5”) gross about $6 million to $8 million per year in royalties
6DL8 TIL that a German lieutenant, Friedrich Lengfeld, was killed by a land mine while attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in WWII. The Americans erected a monument in his honor; the only American monument placed in any German military cemetery.