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TIL while studying flight or fight a biologist grouped guppies in 3 categories "bold" (inspect threat), ordinary (hide), timid (flee). He then put a bass in with the guppies, 40 percent of the timid guppies and 15 percent of the ordinary guppies survived while none of the bold guppies did.

ne0vB TIL - in 1941 people in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon started a push to form a new US State called Jefferson. The counties for a couple weeks would "secede every Thursday," using rifles to interdict drivers on Route 99 and hand them copies of their proclamation of independence.
nWVXr TIL: That in 2021, a human being managed to hold their breath for 24 minutes and 37 seconds. Budimir Šobat attempted this feat to promote the city of Sisak, after it was hit by a strong earthquake in December 2020.
YpM5A TIL that for four years a japanese man was challengened to stay locked up completely naked in an apartment for a tv show akin to the movie the Tru-man show. when he eventually got released his diary became a bestseller in Japan
oBovo TIL a 12-yr-old Canadian boy was caught after hacking multiple sites in order to trade pirated information to the hacktivist group Anonymous for video games. His lawyer said the boy who had been hacking since age 9 was not politically motivated; he merely saw it as a challenge.
W7Nx8 TIL in the Rocky Horror Picture Show theme "Science Fiction/Double Feature" there are 8 actors/actresses mentioned by name. However, the only one still living is Janette Scott, who turns 85 next month