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TIL the fork was once considered immoral, unhygienic and a tool of the devil.

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M71MA TIL media reporting of suicides is carefully regulated as it can trigger more suicides. For example, in Taiwan, reports of charcoal-burning suicides were associated with a 16% increase in suicides by the same method the following day with no corresponding decrease in other methods of suicide.
OgvL TIL that the Inca Empire lasted less than 100 years
0dPXN TIL Kudzu is an invasive species with no natural predators that was introduced in the southern US in the 1930s to add nitrogen to depleted soil.
YpOKd TIL that we are getting over an hour less sleep than people did in the 1940s. Back then, the average was slightly more than 8 hours of sleep a night, while today we are down to around 6 hours, 45 minutes of sleep nightly.
ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India