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TIL that in 1950, the Italian town of Colobraro declared itself “the town of the living dead” after a local curse and started wearing white sheets at night to protect themselves from misfortune.

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05jy TIL All thirteen women who participated in the ‘Shock the Puppy’ experiment (a variation of the Stanley Milgram infamous experiment) obeyed right up until the end, while the six students who refused to go on were all men.
jNOgp TIL that there is a psychological disorder called Boanthropy in which the afflicted believes that they are a cow/ox and behaves as such.
m1wZY TIL that the term Scapegoat stems from an ancient goat sacrifice ritual in Ancient Judaism and likely older 2400 BC Ebla (Modern day Syria)
J1p71 TIL after losing her position in her university's anatomy department in 1938, Rita Levi-Montalcini set up a laboratory in her bedroom and studied the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos. This work led to her discovery of nerve growth factor, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1986.
lxON TIL that Shah Jahan, the emperor responsible for constructing the Taj Mahal, was a direct descendent of Genghis Khan