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TIL the Japanese currency is the ‘en’. It was Westerners who mistook it as yen.

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MVxV TIL abundant suicide in teenage girls was thought to be directly caused by lack of early marriage (in other words “sex”) and that a man’s penis kept her healthy
vppD TIL Glencore controls 24% of the world’s barley, 10% of its wheat, 50% of its copper and 60% of its zinc
o5aL TIL Cockroaches are so repulsed by humans that if they’re touched by a human, not only do they run away, but they wash themselves.
axn9 TIL In 1965 Former Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones, while they were at Harvard University were roommates. The two of them became fast friends and even started a country music band together.
7na7 TIL there is a branch in psychology whose purpose is to use scientific understanding and effective interventions to aid to satisfactory normal life rather than merely treating mental illness. It’s called positive psychology.