In 1942, it was prohibited for American radios to take listener requests because the government feared that spies would embed secret messages on them.
In ancient times, Chinese people feared pandas and described them as metal-devouring black-and-white “tapirs.”
Benjamin Franklin wasn’t trusted to write the Declaration of Independence as it was feared he would put a joke in it.
In 1953, a vicar in the Church of England founded the world’s first crisis suicide hotline, after taking a funeral for a 14-year-old girl who had killed herself because she feared she had contracted an STD. In reality, she was menstruating.
The grey wolf has always been feared by man and has probably been persecuted more than any other animal. Did you know that centuries ago, wolves were ‘tried’ by people and burnt at the stake? However its intelligence and flexibility have saved it from extinction.