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TIL that humans enjoy spicy foods, depressing songs, and roller coasters because of “benign masochism”

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QNnvE TIL that Sylvester Graham (of Graham Cracker fame), the original clean-eating guru and vegetarian pioneer who shunned alcohol, lust, meat, and even white bread, died at age 57 of complications from an opium enema
6EagY TIL about Paul-Félix Armand-Delille who, when trying to reduce the rabbit population on his estate, purposefully released the myxomatosis virus amongst them which spread and destroyed the wild rabbit populations of Europe
0wByA TIL that the US fought a culture war against sagging pants during which at least one person was jailed and numerous others were fined, suspended, and "urkeled"
X4gE TIL that phrases that use two synonyms to say the same thing (e.g. “will and testament”) are called “legal doublets,” and they exist because during Medieval times, English speakers spoke both French and Latin, but not typically both, and lawyers wanted to avoid ambiguity.