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TIL in Japan you can rent a fake family or family members

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v1oJr TIL The longest recorded human pregnancy lasted over 12 months; and resulted in the live birth of a healthy child.
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster
KyxE TIL That Dave Chappelle was offered the role of Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue in Forrest Gump but turned it down because he thought the role was demeaning, and the movie would bomb.
P18KZ TIL Jalapeños and Bell Peppers are the same species
l7EYK TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism