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TIL The word "Tragedy" comes from an ancient Greek word meaning "Goat song"

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X8KR TIL That the reason the suffix ‘gate’ is tacked on to every scandal is because of William Safire, a speechwriter for Nixon and a political commentator at the NYT, who began affixing all scandals with -gate in the belief it would make his boss’s crimes seem less severe in the light of history
mx8mM TIL: Dolphins are born with hair, but it falls off shortly afterward
MeaG0 TIL about Posthuman Transhumanism, an ideology which seeks to develop and make available technologies that eliminate aging, enable immortality and greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities, in order to achieve a "posthuman future"
R7yRj TIL The real-life inspiration behind Popeye the Sailor was a man named, "Frank 'Rocky' Fiegel."
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