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TIL People recognize eyebrows more than they do actual eyes

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X0jYQ TIL There was a phenomenon called Souperism during the Irish Famine. Schools were set up in which starving children were fed, on the condition of receiving Protestant religious instruction. However those who “took the soup” were often reviled by their peers, and the stigma lasted past the famine.
6wLw TIL of 1177 BC: The year that civilization collapsed. In a short period of time all empires along the Mediterranean collapsed violently;including the Egyptian, Hittite, and Mycenaean empires.Almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, and historians don’t know why
w7m8 TIL that Thailand is the second most common place for American tourists to die abroad, after Mexico.
wLEmo TIL that the Monty Python crew sued ABC for editing and censoring the first appearance of Flying Circus on US network television without consent. They demended that the showing be canceled and taken off the air, but a judge ruled that ABC could play the show as long as it included a disclaimer.
mxpxY TIL that as recently as 1992, Australia was recognised as Terra Nullius meaning nobody's land because Aboriginal Australians were considered fauna instead of human beings.