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lJ8a TIL the words hysteria, hysterical & hysterics has the root word hyster, Greek for womb. The ancient Greeks believed women have a wandering womb that would attack their brains every now & then.
yQ9je TIL France bans all non-court ordered paternity tests in a desire to "preserve the peace."
wLn7W TIL a 1991 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation foresaw the phenomena of video game addiction.
NX7dP TIL an unnamed male director tried to cast Salma Hayek in his film, but the studio refused as "they couldn’t imagine a Mexican in space." The director later told Hayek he was ashamed and should have walked away but he needed the movie.
Lkv70 TIL that the product that ruined Kodak, the digital camera, was invented by an engineer at Kodak