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TIL about "Mean World Syndrome" in which people who are exposed to excessive violent content in mass media, particularly TV news coverage, believe the world is much more violent than it actually is.

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NXwGQ TIL Louis B. Mayer created the AMPAS (which runs the Oscars) to curb unions, and created the awards ceremony because "I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them... If I got them cups and awards they’d kill themselves to produce what I wanted."
KKk9 TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender
WG6A TIL: When Robin Williams made his guest appearance on “Louie”, he was so impressed by how hard everyone worked, that when Louis CK handed him his paycheck for his appearance Williams immediately endorsed it and handed it back to CK so it could be distributed amongst them.
neakd TIL A unique genetic mutation and a well-wired brain has helped an artist named Concetta Antico to see 100 Times More Colors Than The Average Person
oRWEE TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.