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TIL of the Broken Toy Experiment, whereby 2 year old kids were given toys that were rigged to break spectacularly. Those who showed the most guilt went on to have fewer behavioral problems later on.

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QYEe TIL: Otto Von Bismarck said in 1888 “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.“ 26 years later in 1914 World War 1 broke out after Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo
8rN8 TIL the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the ancient Rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years (17.2 for males, 17.9 for females)
ddlE TIL of Ryōji Uehara, a Japanese Kamikaze pilot whose last letter written the night before his final mission is considered a masterpiece of Japanese literature.
0w0kR TIL, according to the Chinese Ming-Dynasty (17th century) era book "Wuzazu" by Xie Zhaozhi, the game Rock Paper Scissors dates back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). In Japan, its earliest form "mushi-ken", players picked from a frog (kawazu), a slug (namekuji), or a snake (hebi).
8ZQb The medical name for a butt crack is “Intergluteal Cleft”