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TIL high heels were originally worn by men in the Near East because it helped to keep their feet in a horse’s stirrups

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yVOMV TIL of the lost civilization of Tartessos in modern Spain, who's language is unclassified. The location is unknown but is thought to have been near a giant estuary that turned into the Guadalquivir Marshes. Some to speculate Tartessos to be the biblical Tarshish or even Atlantis.
X6jP TIL German writer Ernst Jünger ran away at the age of 18, served both WW1 and WW2, earned the iron cross, hung out with Picasso and Cocteau, hated the nazis and did lots of drugs until he died 102 years old.
gnXD TIL one of the oldest companies in the world(nearly 400 years old), Zildjian, a cymbal manufacturing company was founded by an alchemist when trying to turn base metals into gold.
NXQoE TIL that the word 'eclipse' comes from the Greek word meaning 'abandonment'. This stems from their belief that eclipses were a sign that the gods were angry with humans and the Sun would abandon the Earth, bringing untold misery.
n7Yo TIL In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness