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TIL Ths Netherlands has a bible belt

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69XxX TIL Tonic water was created as an early prophylactic treatment against Malaria (due to the added Quinine) by the British army. They added Gin to improve taste and now we have the G&T.
Me11b TIL that when someone is poor from spending their money on luxuries instead of necessities, they are living in "secondary poverty".
Br8Kd TIL of the Roman military ritual evocatio, in which they'd attempt to deprive an enemy of divine protection by summoning their god and promising to worship it better
x6ZP5 TIL the defunding of the $11bn Superconducting Super Collider caused huge growth in the field of quantitative finance, as the theoretical physics job market collapsed overnight and PhD graduates had to find jobs at finance copmanies
8lbV TIL that a group of American journalists formed a secret society ‘The Order of the Occult Hand’ whose only goal is to slip the meaningless phrase “It was as if an occult hand had…” past editors and into published articles