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TIL The “Middle Finger” gesture was first used in an ancient Greek play in 423 B.C, referring to “a male who submits to anal penetration

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1andr TIL of Seafarer Abandonment. Sailors and the ship they're on can be completely abandoned by their employers in a foreign port, with no wages, way home, fuel or even food or water. Sometimes they can even be detained by the country they're abandoned in.
78ZJb TIL: Jamaican culture was influenced by Indian immigrants and that's where Rastafarianism comes from. Indians introduced curry, cannabis and even dreadlocks to Jamaica.
D1O6v TIL Quokkas don't really throw their babies at predators
kOgLm TIL: Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, named their daughter, Rosanne, after Cash's nicknames for his wife's breasts, "Rose" and "Anne."
J4GV TIL as a nod to Spielberg - who placed a kid wearing Yoda costume in his movie E.T. - George Lucas made E.T.’s race a part of the Galactic Senate in Phantom Menace