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TIL landscape was sacred for Hittites: "No one violates a boundary or road, for boundaries are the knees of the Storm-god and a road is his chest. If someone violates a boundary, he makes the Storm-god weary in his knees, if someone violates a road, he makes the Storm-god weary in his chest."

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R7J0j TIL that many movie studios have avoided paying taxes/royalties that rely on a movie’s net profits, by using creative methods to reduce or eliminate the reported profits, also called “Hollywood Accounting”.
d8Ra7 TIL the Aztecs followed Spaniards around with incense burners when they came to the Americas. The Spaniards believed this to be a divine honour, however it was actually a necessity due to the wide gap in hygiene between the two peoples. The Aztec found their stench unbearable.
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vgOR TIL that according to the Hawaiian creation myth, our universe comes from the wreckage of another, earlier universe and the only creatures that survived from that alien universe are octopuses
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