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TIL that not being able to burp is not normal, and a lifetime of being confused as to why people didn’t just “burp silently” has finally come back to me in the form of realizing that I was the strange one.

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D167j TIL that car barriers actually used to spear and vault cars in crashes. Now they are being engineered into safer forms of damage control to occupants whole also being cheaper and easier to repair.
lVPG TIL Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, which is about happiness and what makes life worth living, was only published for the first time in a modern language in 2011
6E94X TIL that in the 1800’s doctors used “hydrotherapy” as a way of sedating patients in mental asylums that continued into the 20th century. One method of the treatment was the sprays, the patient stood in a shower stall, sometimes strapped in, while an attendant hoses them down with hot or cold water.
V5BB TIL the website UrbanDictionary.com has been used in court cases to define slang words that are not found in dictionaries.