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TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses!

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gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.
j6Bbn TIL d'Armond Speers tried to teach his son the Klingon language, used by the Klingons in the Star Trek series, as a first language. The boy answered mostly in English which his mother spoke to him and at the age of 5 stopped answering his father when he spoke Klingon.
neBJr TIL a German study found that wine tasted better if the drinker thinks it's more expensive. Subjects inside an MRI scanner tasted a $14 red wine 3x but were told each sip was from bottles costing $3, $7, & $21. The brain's motivation & reward center was more active for the "more expensive" wine.
grw1A Til that the designer of the SS rune symbol was only paid about $2 for his design.
N1LP TIL that after 21 years, Trent Reznor is finally going to release the soundtrack from the video game “Quake” as an album on vinyl. No solid release date is yet given but release is expected “this year” according to Rolling Stone magazine.