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TIL Rabbits can scream

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69we7 TIL that in 1973 NASA used the song Paralyzed, by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, to wake up a space crew. They were so disoriented by the shock that the song was blacklisted from ever being used for that purpose again
rRdQ1 TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices/hallucinations. In India and Africa people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and positive voices
xeD1 TIL the word “nuclear” was dropped from “nuclear magnetic resonance imaging” out of concern of anti-nuclear sentiments.
DQp4p TIL seafood mislabelling occurs in 25-70%+ of retail products for popular species (red snapper, wild salmon, Atlantic cod). One study found snapper and tuna had the highest mislabeling rates (87% of snapper, 59% of tuna).
woVwP TIL the U.S. military played Metallica records to weaken prisoners it planned to interrogate but stopped after the band objected stating it didn't want to encourage violence, according to the Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden. They substituted it with Christian metal band Demon Hunter.