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TIL Humans can run the world because they can cooperate both flexibly and in a large number.

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QNLXe TIL about Magdalene Laundries, Irish asylums where women (who were disabled, sex workers, "too beautiful," or any number of things) were held and required to clean clothes daily. Some never left, as they had no family outside to vouch for them.
W7Ngd Today I learned that while working a movie theater in Arizona, Bill Hader got fired for spoiling the ending of Titanic
P88G TIL that the term “soft drink” used to refer to any beverage that did not contain hard alcohol, but that most carbonated beverages actually contain minute amounts of alcohol due to fermentation of the sugars.
NE1N TIL that it would take only 4 (large) asteroids to trigger run-away global warming on mars, so you wouldn’t need a space suit.
QNrb9 TIL about Sweating Sickness, a virus in 1500s Europe that’s since vanished. Death could occur within hours of the first symptoms.