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TIL that the original tale of Aladdin was set in China; he was Chinese

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j6N8R TIL Before telescopes, Chinese astronomers in the Song dynasty made naked eye observations of solar phenomena during sunrises/sunsets or through clouds. It was recorded on 11 January CE 1077, in the sun were black spots as large as plums
NX8OP TIL that not being able to burp is not normal, and a lifetime of being confused as to why people didn’t just “burp silently” has finally come back to me in the form of realizing that I was the strange one.
e0pYg TIL Humans are the only mammals that develop breasts that are permanently enlarged.
Br8bx TIL “no two people have identical prints” is a myth that has still never been proven.
neLpP TIL there is a theory that explains advertising wants, international conflicts, friendship and rivlary. Mimetic theory’s key insight is that human desire is not an autonomous process, but a collective one. We want things because other people want them.