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TIL Costco’s Stock Price Has Doubled Since 2009 - While Having Some Of The Happiest Retail Employees

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AA77 TIL In Turkey, the word for “turkey” is “hindi”, meaning “India”. In India, the word for “turkey” is “peru”.
9BZp TIL an Asian woman has never won the oscar for best actress. In the entire history of the academy awards, only one has ever even been nominated, and it was over 80 years ago.
6E4v7 TIL When researchers blocked AMPA-receptor removal in rats, they found that the rats were prevented from forgetting the locations of objects. To forget, it seemed that the rat brain had to proactively destroy connections at the synapse. Forgetting is not a failure of memory, but a function of it.
b9W7N TIL abolitionist Fredrick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century and never smiled in a single photo, to counter the notion of a happy slave.
5m59 TIL RPG clerics wield maces because Bishop Odo of Bayeux was wielding one in the Bayeux Tapestry, allegedly so as not to shed blood.