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TIL the Pirahã tribe has a very unique culture and language. Among other unusual features, they appear to be the world’s only people who lack words for numbers or any concept of counting. They also have no past tense, no way of describing colors, and no concept of the ancient past or distant future.

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7wVM TIL Kellog’s Corn Flakes were originally invented to get young people to stop masturbating.
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