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TIL, the book “to train up a child” by Michael Pearl encourages abusing your child and using necessities (water, food, etc…) to control them. It has been linked to three deaths.

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QNlrL TIL about the International Affective Picture System (IAPS), a large set of photos with subjects from the mundane (a basket or someone at the beach) to the provocative (burn victims or erotic nudes) used by researchers to elicit and study various emotional responses.
JYG4j TIL That the 1960's Civil Rights Leaders Intensely Trained With Role Playing and Drills Because "Non-Violence is not a normal human reaction"
0wKnM TIL There is an abandoned Apache 160 airplane in a skatepark in Detroit. According to its registration number, it was registered in 2019, but has been sitting abandoned since at least May 2020 when it was found by a documentary maker.
YoPx TIL All domesticated hamsters are descendents from a single brother sister pair that was found in Aleppo. They were bred in Jerusalem by a guy named Israel.
epx56 TIL a blood-filled sandfly was described in 2004 from Early Cretaceous amber in Myanmar. The insect had reptilian blood cells in its gut, along with evidence of a prehistoric leishmania-like parasite.