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TIL word pairings like "artsy-fartsy", "super-duper", or "itsy-bitsy" are a linguistic phenomenon known as Rhyming Reduplication

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GYQ8G TIL Basic human emotions such as happiness, sadness, Anger, fear and surprise are embedded in our instinct (as default settings) BUT the only emotion that we acquire by learning is Disgust. That is why some foods seem normal in some cultures but considered disgusting in others.
QVPp TIL that “generic” and “specific” are derived from “genus” and “species” and were originally scientific biological terminology
QJQA9 TIL of Arthur Boycott, the man with the longest overdue library book in history. He checked it out in the 1890s and it wasn’t returned until nearly 120 years later in 2016, by his granddaughter
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