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TIL some Muslims develop a permanent scar on their foreheads from bowing to Mecca. It’s called the “prayer bump”.

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ne5PY TIL that between 1933 and 1935, Germany had a dual flag arrangement to reflect the structure of the government. One flag was the Nazi party’s swastika, and the other was a version of the old tricolour of the former German Empire.
Lk65p TIL that Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the internet, made the decision not to patent the World Wide Web to protect it’s growth. He currently lives a modest life, while avoiding both fame and fortune.
OonVL TIL of Julian Jaynes's "Bicameral Mind Theory" which suggests that ancient humans were not self aware and that the right hemisphere communicated with the left via auditory hallucinations. These voices may have been interpreted as "gods" by early humans.
Z9GG TIL UNICEF tried to provide clean drinking water for people of the Bengal Delta by drilling wells. The ground was contaminated with Arsenic and ended up poisoning over 50 million people.
loyWK TIL Dante, author of 'Dante's Divine Comedy', is the primary reason why the Tuscan dialect of Italian became the "standardized" Italian language. In 1945, the fascist Italian government called Dante "the greatest symbol of Italianness".