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TIL that the Spartans were historically known to deliver badass one-liners which were dubbed as “Laconic Phrases”

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gMDxL TIL about Belgian pie thrower Noël Godin who's pied the likes of Bill Gates and Nicolas Sarkozy. His sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of moral order, nuclear power, and any form of political power." His pie of choice is a simple whipped cream and chocolate on a soft sponge.
j6RGM TIL of the Stoned Ape Theory. The theory of how the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms led to a rapid increase of cognitive brain function, and ultimately the evolution from Homo erectus to Homo sapian.
J18Bk TIL the opening crawl (words in space) from the original Star Wars trilogy was achieved by placing physical models of the sentences on a black canvas and slowly panning a camera over them.
DJ5Y TIL Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
a8doL TIL about the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon's English-speaking west, between separatists and (Francophone) Cameroon. Atleast 6,000 people have died and over 700,000 people have been displaced.