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TIL Michael Jordan said the greatest part of playing for the US Olympic team was “learning the weaknesses” of his teammates for when they returned to the NBA.

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1aM8V TIL On a trip to Congo, an anthropologist played 11 excerpts of Western songs to 40 Pygmies. The emotional cues in songs, which Westerners pick up on, didn't mean the same to the Pygmies: They didn't hear the shrieking strings of the Psycho theme as stressful
OGxO4 TIL: Rachel Wall was the last woman to be hanged in MA in the 1700s. She tricked sailors by screaming for help, when people came to help, her crew would kill them and steal their goods. She was later arrested for trying to rip a girl's tongue out and theft. She requested to be tried as a pirate.
wKM7 TIL that Quentin Tarantino never knew his father, but his father latched on to Quentin’s fame in order to become an actor.
e4NL TIL Diamonds are relatively abundant but their price is high due to artificial supply restrictions
oBRnK More than 50 percent of women with anorexia nervosa have depression or anxiety, and 43 percent of adults who are obese have depression. So, women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of ‘feel good’ neurosteroid.