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TIL: About “Crab Mentality” - a metaphor used to indicate the way of thinking usually described as “If I can’t have something, neither can you”

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nW6lY TIL that the International Date Line was only discovered after Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world and discovered he "lost" a day compared to those who stayed in Spain.
wLZyM TIL wearing a blindfold for at least 12 hours can induce visual hallucinations, including complex scenery and frightening entities.
yQ7pV TIL the set of English alphabets used to be made up of 27 letters with '&' after 'Z'
kJ8V5 TIL that John Frizzell, the composer for "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," made mock Latin phrases for a Gregorian chant when the boys enter a church: "Scrotum agitatio ignormaus genitillus largus hemorrhoidus burnum all day long."
0woWy TIL the Russian Empire we’re in a position to go to war with Britain if they intervened in the US Civil War. This Russo-American ‘alliance’ may have saved the Union.