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TIL Budweiser sponsors a brothel in the USA

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D1xwe TIL about the American town 'Merrymount', founded 1624. Named from slang at the time for 'illicit' forms of sex - the town rejected Puritan values welcoming non-Heterosexuals, freeing indentured servants and intermarrying Native Americans. Five years later it was invaded and razed to the ground.
9aNM TIL rats will work to free a trapped pal empathetically and altruistically even when there’s a tempting little pile of chocolate chips nearby
OdlR TIL that the words for each parent “mama” and “papa” are very similar in languages all around the world and developed independently. All human babies “baby talk”, and these first sounds are mistaken as real “first” words by adults. Ex: Mandarin Chinese dad=baba, mom=mama.
LkNkv TIL a man handmade his own postage stamps featuring his face for years to mail letters all over the world, and was never found out.
DQObD TIL George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country.” Moved to tears, his officers compromised.