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TIL that in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sad movies with you and wipe your tears.

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R7lVQ TIL in 1624 Marco Antonio de Dominis was publicly burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for his many “heresies” in both science and philosophy. Among them — being first to use science to accurately describe how rainbows are formed.
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154
oBNmK TIL in 1991 After Eric Clapton’s 4 year old son died after falling 53 stories from an open skyscraper window Clapton fled to an island and worked on his music for a year as a recluse. While there he wrote and dedicated the song ‘Tears in Heaven’ to his son. The song went on to win 3 Grammys.
4Y6J TIL that Mike Tyson was addicted to coke and alcohol, getting high before some of his major fights. He used a fake penis with another person’s urine to avoid detection.
KODmJ TIL According to a study, children that have been exposed to family violence show much of the same brain activity as soldiers that have been in combat.