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TIL Thai names are long and complex because each family has a unique surname restricted by blood, and descriptive first names are believed to have spiritual advantages. In parallel, Thais also have short nicknames that are not derived from their legal names.

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0d4x1 TIL about bird-hipped and lizard-hipped Dinosaurs. And that birds are descended from lizard-hipped Dinosaurs
xVQvg TIL: Yoko Ono was not ~just~ the wife of The Beatles' famed musician John Lennon. She's also a longtime "conceptual artist" in her own right, sometimes making art like "Mend Piece," which includes these instructions for the viewer: "TAKE YOUR FAVORITE CUP. BREAK IT IN MANY PIECES WITH A HAMMER."
XEomQ TIL that there is now serious scientific study supporting the idea that trees thrive in interconnected communities, as they communicate toward mutual goals. Sharing sunlight, raising young, conserving resources. Mycorrhizal networks of tree roots and fungi may operate in similar manner as a brain.
xAAk TIL in 1201, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.
woXG8 TIL that from 1915 to 1952, film was not protected under the First Amendment, because the Supreme Court (voting 9-0) saw film as "a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit" and therefore subject to government censorship, resulting in the strict "Hays Code" in 1934