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TIL The Inuit Way to teach kids to control their anger by using story to discipline and not acting out.

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Wk4dY TIL Steve Martin's Rope Tricks in the "3 Amigos" Were a Skill He Picked Up While Working at Disneyland in His Younger Days.
l7oNA TIL Future Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II alongside Ian Fleming.
GY97G TIL of the Snake Detection Theory, which states that humans are remarkably good at noticing snakes, even when camouflaged or when we only get a brief glimpse of them.
X1aP TIL that some insects, like the Pea Aphid, can explode themselves to frighten or kill enemies. They have been observed doing this after being eaten.
0w99j TIL the atheistic Cult of Reason was sponsored by the French revolutionary govt. to replace Catholicism. Notre Dame's altar was dismantled, and provocatively dressed women posed inside representing virtues like Reason. Cemetery gates in France had to bear the inscription "Death is an eternal sleep."