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TIL Aristotle’s views on women are so expansive that they get their own wiki page, He basically asserted that women should be subservient to men to the point where they shouldn’t even be allowed to eat as much food. He also claimed that women were basically incomplete men, and thus inferior

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JYXYm TIL that when holocaust survivors were given candy/food by the allied troops upon liberation, many died on the spot (or soon after) due to re-feeding syndrome
9YdV6 TIL the word "Thou" was originally singular and "You" was plural. "You" was also used as a formal second person singular, to the point that "Thou" came to be considered impolite and eventually fell out of use.
Z8OWp TIL that the Nazis believed strongly in the myth of Atlantis. Under the guidance of Heinrich Himmler, archeologists spread the idea that Germans were descended from a superior race of Antlanteans.
LkdV9 TIL about a group of 8 people who mistakenly snorted pure LSD crystals which they thought was cocaine, resulting in what is probably the largest LSD overdose ever and 5 of the 8 going into a state of coma. (Article continues on the next pages)
Ola TIL the ancient Sumerians had 2 (grammatical) genders - human and nonhuman - and that the “human” gender included men, women, gods….. and statues.