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TIL in 2015 30-70% of all internet traffic in India was estimated to be pornography, despite it being ostensibly illegal

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vPwy4 TIL that 4 of Sigmund Freud’s earliest disciples like Honegger, Otto Gross, Victor Tausk, and Ernst von Fleischl, died by suicide, while others, such as Otto Rank and Ferenczi, began struggling with mental illness.
kowg TIL Internet addiction is classed as a ‘mental illness’ See you lot in rehab.
p8kAN TIL that NCAA basketball players’ numbers are required to be base 6 so that referees can signal the two numbers with fingers on each hand.
4ZNa TIL that the Paraguayan War was the bloodiest war in Latin American history. Paraguay lost nearly 70% of their male population. After the war, some surviving men began to practice polygamy due to the gender disparity in an attempt to recover the population.
rRWXM TIL that Reese's peanut butter cups were also originally called "penny cups" since they cost just one cent each when Harry Burnett Reese first started selling them in 1928. The penny cups were so successful that Reese was able to sell them in 5-pound boxes to local retailers.