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TIL that MIT developed a computer software that can identify and distinguish a real smile from a smile of frustration.

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Eyeo TIL that in China the movie ‘21 & Over’ was about “a boy who leaves China, gets corrupted by our wayward, Western partying ways and goes back to China a better person.”
8eOK8 TIL that according to legend Emperor Alexander I of Russia might have faked his own death to live as a hermit in Siberia, said hermit later became canonized as a saint. Historians are debating this since it actually has plausible evidence to it.
Z8xkR TIL about Perpetual Stew, common in the middle ages, it was a stew that was kept constantly stewing in a pot and rarely emptied, just constantly replenished with whatever items they could throw in it.
P11pE TIL that a story exists in the mythology of the Chinook peoples where an anthropomorphic coyote is insulted, and later taught to catch salmon, by a talking pile of his own feces
vPxW7 TIL high heels were originally worn by men, mainly for horseback riding and status display.