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TIL that goats prefer interacting with happy people. They can distinguish between human facial expressions and seek out positive interactions with those who appear happy.

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VBwR8 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 and for many centuries it was believed to be from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born. (Maybe Cancer)
BmNd TIL that three government research institutes spent several years and millions of dollars creating a version of kimchi that could safely (and without disgusting other astronauts) be sent into space with South Korea’s first astronaut, Ko San: space kimchi.
d87mB TIL Since suicide is an unforgivable sin for christians many people, especialy women in 18th century resorted to suicide by proxy. They would usualy murder a child, a crime punishable by death and ask for forgiveness right before the execution
RaD8 TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug
m0by TIL New York composer Sung Jin Hong plans to write an opera on the series Breaking Bad