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TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.

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9g4Q TIL of King Psamtik I, who conducted the first recorded experiment in psychology. He sought to prove that the innate language was Egyptian. He sent two infants to live secluded in care w/out ever hearing words. The conclusion: Phrygian. One babys first word was “becos,” Phrygia’s word for bread.
VMxyD TIL In order to draft up the Nuremberg racial laws, the nazis studied in detail American racial laws. However they found the "one-drop" rule too harsh and thus settled to regard anyone with 3 of 4 Jewish grandparents as a Jew.
mX6P TIL that in 1992, you couldn’t be a police officer in Texas if you had “sexual contact with a member of the same sex since age 15,” or any sexual contact with “an animal or fowl since age 17.”
xxXB TIL that in 1984, Steven Tyler heard an old Aerosmith song on the radio and didn’t recognize it due to memory loss from years of drug use. He suggested to the band that they record a cover version. Joe Perry told him “It’s us, fuckhead.”
v11lx Here's what happens to your brain when it's surrounded by the noise of nothingness.