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TIL in psychology there is a theory called the Electra and opedius complex that states Girls feel attraction to their father and jealousy towards there mother during phallic stage and vice versa

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P196O TIL there are people in France who have actually done time in jail for stealing garden gnomes in the name of The Garden Gnome Liberation Front
nWBnW TIL that over 30,000 U.S. service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have died by suicide — over four times as many as have died in combat.
EyLx TIL America’s poverty line was designed with the thought that every American household had a housewife who was a skilled cook, and has only ever been adjusted for inflation.
W7RXN TIL The Order of the Frog is an academic order that is awarded as part of the Nobel Prize celebrations. Awardees have to jump like frogs on the University campus in keeping with tradition.
oBaYY TIL that the Ute Indians discovered mechanoluminescence hundreds of years before modern scientists. Quartz crystals were put in sacks of thin buffalo skin. When shaken, they would produce sparks of light that they used in their religious ceremonies.