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TIL that the Vietnamese unit of currency is the 'Dong.'
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TIL that participants in a study, when controlling a robot by joystick, were unable to create any self-tickling sensation. This suggests that tickling depends on surprise/a lack of expectation, and that the brain regulates/blocks the sensation when it can anticipate it.
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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. studied Gandhi and practiced "satyagraha"
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TIL that soldiers have been drawing Phallic objects on walls since at least A.D. 207 archaeologists evidence shows Roman Soldiers would Graffiti Hadrian's Wall with them.
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TIL that pregnancy is counted from the first day of the last period. So if you were to conceive in the week before your period, you’d already be approx. 3 weeks pregnant (assuming a 4 week menstrual cycle)!
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TIL there's a city in Texas called Cut and Shoot, supposedly named after a boy shouted "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" during an altercation.