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TIL that research has shown that adult playfulness increases a person’s sexiness

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e0VlL TIL that in 1895 a white man in Louisiana was lynched by a white crowd for an attempt to lynch a black woman
yQkLe TIL that The Adventures of Tintin was originally created as propaganda for the youth wing of a far-right, Catholic Belgian newspaper. However, it soon grew far more popular than the paper itself.
vPw8B TIL negative differentiation, suggesting that negativity is conceptualized in a more elaborate and complex way than positivity. Studies show that negative vocabulary is more richly descriptive of the affective experience and there appear to be more terms to express negative feelings.
BrKxL Till: in 1876 a group of Americans hired a ship, sailed to Australia, broke a bunch of Irish "rebels" out of prison, brought them back to the States and where greeted as heroes.
XE8j6 TIL that in 2019, an Australian pig stole beer cans, became drunk, then started a fight with a cow