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TIL: There was a study on in China that explores why the 317 million female gamers there made otome (romance) games popular. The results show it was due to strong parasocial interactions led to more romantic feelings towards the fictional characters among under 30 yo females.

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b9GBN TIL about Salma Bashir, a girl whose intestines were sucked out of her body in a swimming pool, and now lives without her gallbladder and large and small intestines
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e0Xk6 TIL that in Sri Lanka, by law, women are STILL prohibited from buying alcohol! The law was briefly abandoned in 2018, only for the president at that time to step in and reactivate this archaic law again.
1aa7O TIL that the Catholic Church specifically taught that indulgences do not affect whether or not a person goes to heaven. However, greedy "pardoners" lied about this and promised things like eternal salvation in return for money to increase donations. This led to Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
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