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TIL that eye movements can reveal people's sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health.

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neWxY TIL, that the economical model responsible for this genocidal program implemented by Pol Pot in Cambodia originated as a doctoral thesis at Sorbonne in 1950s
Lkmrm TIL Electric Eels Can Remotely Control Their Prey’s Muscles
p8x0N TIL of Prince Estabrook. A slave who was wounded fighting alongside patriots at Lexington and fought until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. He was emancipated after the war.
GNW4 TIL Dennis Rader, the “BTK” killer, contacted police and asked “Can I communicate with Floppy and not be traced to computer? Be honest.” Police told him he could, and Rader sent them a disk. Forensic analysts then identified him through metadata from a deleted MS Word file the disk contained.
Xger TIL in 1987 a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “we have a problem”. The pilot asked “what kind of problem?”, and at that moment the man shot the stewardess dead and announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane