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TIL spending money on charity may make you happier than spending money on yourself if your basic needs are already met

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ObAY TIL the Caribbean Taino natives believed in a deity called Guabancex, the goddess of chaos and destruction, who could call upon a storm called the “juracán”. This is where the Spanish word “huracán” comes from, which later became the English word “hurricane”.
yQxwv TIL that a lottery winner wore a scream mask to collect his one million so that his relatives won't take his money
4XNmX TIL It is mandatory for every team to bolt a rectangular plank of wood to the bottom of their Formula 1 car during races.
JY8Nm TIL Osama Bin Laden was a huge fan of The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGuyver. He also had an obsession with Whitney Houston, wanted to marry her and talked about having her husband Bobby Brown murdered.
1Dy8 TIL that a few hundred years back, women in Turkey could legally divorce their husbands if he didn’t provide them with enough coffee.