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TIL: The Origin Of “Piss Poor” was that urine was used to tan animal skins so family’s would pee in a pot and sell it to the tannery. “Don’t have a pot to piss in” were the extremely poor who couldn’t even afford a piss pot for the tannery.

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4XOeN TIL that the jingu shinto shrine in Ise, Japan has been demolished and rebuilt every 20 years since the year 690. Even the objects inside the shrine are rebuilt except the sacred mirror
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