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TIL when parents do not give their infant enough attention, the child may develop "Avoidant Attachment". Left with a deep sense of emptiness, the child copes by being distant towards others, rejecting affection, avoiding emotional intimacy and showing little to no reaction towards pain and trauma

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Oo1Dg TIL about Posthumous Reproduction where you can “harvest” sperm from a dead person in order to reproduce
YNoB TIL Young elephants in Uganda ‘appear’ to have engaged in revenge attacks on villages, a study mentioned suggests 'a lack of older bulls to lead by example had created gangs of aggressive young males with a penchant for violence towards each other and other species’
m1jWM TIL that performance artist Marina Abramović created a piece called "The Artist Is Present" in 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she sat silently at a table for a total of 736 hours over 3 months inviting museum visitors to sit across from her and make eye contact without speaking.
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oWWo TIL the first recorded flight of a human with artificial wings happened in the year 6 CE. Emperor Kao Yang liked to strap kites to his prisoners and throw them off of towers. One lucky guy, Yuan Huang T'ou, got a kite that worked well enough to carry him safely to the ground.