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TIL that Soviet psychology once classified “the struggle for truth and justice” as a symptom of paranoid, delusional schizophrenia.

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jN1Wv TIL when Sir Terry Pratchett was knighted, he forged his own sword from iron and meteorites just for the occasion
VBB4D TIL: Japanese women are expected to give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine’s Day as part of a tradition called giri choco – literally, obligation chocolates. Men are supposed to reciprocate on 14 March on White Day – an event dreamed up by chocolate makers in the early 80s to boost sales.
Wk86L TIL that in 2010, an 18-year-old Indonesian man was found having sex with a cow, who he claimed flirted with him. In order to cleanse the village of the act of bestiality, the man was forced to ritually marry the cow. The cow was then drowned in the ocean, and the man was also symbolically drowned
YAXx TIL all San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board-members are required to ride transit at least once a week
yVkpe TIL: That the blobfish can live up to 4000ft below the surface of the ocean and can live for over 100 years old. Their most known appearance is of their deceased appearance but looks completely different when alive.