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TIL that the opposite of exorcism is adorcism: the practice of inviting positive spirits into places or people.

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R70Nw TIL that the name of the city Des Moines may originate from an insult. According to one source, settlers asked the natives the name of a nearby, rival tribe, and were told it was Moingoana,which they shortened to Moines. In fact, Moingoana means "poopy-face".
Lpa9 TIL a grown man once hunted down and attacked a child who had killed him several times in Call Of Duty.
e0v56 TIL: One of the shortest operas which is regularly performed concerns the emotional lives of two unhappily married couples as they play a hand of Bridge.
wLjKP TIL that a Sand Tiger Shark embryo will develop teeth and eat its weaker siblings, to ensure only the strongest are born.
wok5P TIL "magic mushrooms" are legal in Colorado and Oregon