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TIL The reason the Bible says “You shall not have any other gods before me” is because Judaim was originally polytheistic

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eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"
8gN8 Today I learned that 1.5 million people were evicted from their homes in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
QJopd TIL the 86 billion neurons in our brain resembled a chaotic jungle until 2017 when researchers, using a peculiar branch of math, saw the brain react to stimuli by building a tower of rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D) and more (up to 11 dimensions) out of the "sand" before disintegrating.
BrdWL TIL that humans have a negativity bias that makes us continuously look for bad news. The trait stems from early humans who developed it as a survival mechanism
wLKbY TIL that in the nation of Papua New Guinea (population 8 million) there are 820 different spoken languages (complete languages, not dialects), which belong to 60 language families as different from each other as French and Chinese