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TIL that VO5 means 5 vitamins and oils
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TIL there were more than 100 reported cases of Human Sacrifice in India between 2014 and 2021.
Ook5L
TIL the Danish government permits adults and children to kill dolphins and whales with knives and lances at a public event on the Faroe Islands each year called “grindadrap.” They kill about 1,000 annually, or 1 whale or dolphin for every 50 Faroese people.
jNMWM
TIL The reason we find some smells bad is because our brains have evolved to react with disgust to the smells of thing which are major disease vectors - things such as vomit or rotting carcasses. The greater the risk of disease, the more offensive you would find the smell.
yVd1a
TIL of the Iriadamant, a short lived community of mainly foreign people dressed in Native American outfits who lived in Northern Finland lead by a local professor who wanted to learn self sufficiency. After the experiment failed, it turned into a eco-cult whose members lived in extreme poverty.
0byp
TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: “That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case.”