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TIL that despite the popular belief that women weren't allowed to watch the ancient Olympics because the athletes competed naked, only married women couldn't actually attend the competition. Unmarried women were welcome and the priestess of Demeter even had a privileged spot

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b9VM9 TIL according to Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman". Nirvana, or liberation, is defined as the blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".
Opwe TIL: In case of a threat, Switzerland has over 3000 demolition points where bridges can be demolished remotely and landslides can cause certain roads to be blocked off.
LkYGV TIL X-Men is/was a metaphor for the civil rights movement. Specifically, Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcolm X.
pOZp TIL after opening of the New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, a rumor came about that the Bridge was unstable and was going to collapse. To prove it was safe, P.T. Barnum led 21 elephants across it on May 17, 1884.
8ep7Z TIL That E-cigarettes were first invented in the 1960s, but were never sold in order to protect the traditional cigarette market