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TIL Owen and Luke Wilson are brothers! And they have an older brother!

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xVDyb TIL psychiatrist Avicenna had a malnourished patient who believed he was a cow ready to be slaughtered. Avicenna, impersonating a butcher, came to kill him but said the cow was too lean and had to eat more. The patient ate more food which restored his health and cured the delusion.
d57Q TIL Plato believes that people acquire knowledge of geometry before we were born, as we do not acquire the basic truths of math and science through observation so therefore our souls must have lived in a perfect universe before birth
1nGd TIL: Gypsy is actually short for Egyptian.
l7OV1 TIL Facist and F**got are both derived from the same Latin root word fasces meaning bundle of sticks
O9gg TIL that Mao Zedong killed more people than Hitler and Stalin together.