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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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WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."
d8Kw9 For a moment in Russia, gold falls from the sky.
VMo4k TIL Mexico City has a high enough elevation that most mosquitos can't actually live there, including the species that spreads Zika and dengue hemorrhagic fever, making it safe for pregnant women to travel to.
XEKpj TIL during the 1967 war between Biafra and Nigeria, Biafra established a puppet state called the Republic of Benin, that lasted one day before being occupied by Nigeria.
VBYWQ TIL In 2010, the Russian Navy ordered the repair of a nuclear battlecruiser at a cost of $11 million dollars. Prosecutors later revealed that the actual cost of this work should have been $8 million and the other $3 million was stolen. As was discovered later, no repair work was carried at all.