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TIL the philosopher Hegel believed that every era of history has wisdom to offer - history is not primitive. The present is not necessarily 'more advanced', but also contains blind spots that history can give answers to.

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X0YEQ TIL Marottichal a village in India was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play chess. Miraculously, the game’s popularity flourished while drinking and gambling declined.
pY1V4 TIL Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie doll, struggled to find a good breast prosthesis after her breast surgery. So she manufactured more realistic version called 'Nearly me'.
9Ybn7 TIL People such as astronomers who spend a lot of time in dark environments prefer to use red lighting when they need just a little light. Eyes are less sensitive to red light and they are less likely to mess with the dark-adaption of our eyes
XrXj TIL that human meat tastes like veal and a person would not be able to distinguish it from veal.
Ay0w TIL After Tom Waits denied Audi permission to use his song “Innocent while you dream”, they did so anyway and he succesfully sued them, afterwards saying “Now they understand the words to the song better… It wasn’t Innocent When You Scheme, it was Innocent When You Dream.”