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TIL panic was named after Pan, the Greek god of the wilds. The state of wild, mindless fear was believed to be a curse derived from his wrath, or even from his mere presence nearby.

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KYjnE TIL Of Menocchio, a 16th century miller who was tried for heresy. He though religion was a fraud, didn't believe Jesus was a god and had his own cosmology, according to which "the world came from chaos, just like cheese comes from milk" and humans were like worms is the cosmic cheese
ne9g7 TIL there was a Lego MMO, Lego Universe, that was shut down after 2 years because the Devs couldn’t stop players from building penises all over the landscape.
GAR04 TIL Siblings separated at birth end up just as similar as siblings reared together (height, weight, IQ, academic performance, general cognitive ability). Parenting account for close to 0% of the variation (although abusive parenting is known to cause problems).
QvpM TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.
D14WP TIL that when Sean Connery dated Julie Hamilton, she originally wasn't attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen in her life.