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TIL The CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006

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6EwQZ Today I learned about a Welsh Christmas tradition in which a hobby horse, made of a real horse's skull, called Mary Lwyd is taken from house to house. Mary and her group is allowed to enter the house for food and drinks if they win the exchange of rude rhymes with the house owner.
6Ea48 TIL there are “culture-bound syndromes” that are considered to be recognizable diseases only within a specific society or culture. Anorexia is considered a Western culture-bound syndrome.
NXeO6 TIL the cities of Chicago and Washington D.C. have curfews prohibiting anyone under 18 years to be outside after 10-12 PM.
p8MNe TIL that the phrase "out of sorts" is most often attributed to typesetting and refers to running out of an individual metal type called "sorts" that printers used during Tudor times in England, though the phrase itself predates that.
0wrop TIL that the American Academy of Pediatrics condemns dieting and "weight loss talk" for teens, recommending instead family meals and positive body image to combat, rather than exacerbate, eating disorders and obesity.