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KvnB TIL that during the Tlacaxipehualiztli (snake festival), Aztec priests skinned war prisoners and young men wore their skins during 20 days
4XAMb TIL of the Rosenhan Experiment, in which a psychologist David Rosenhan and seven other pseudo-patients faked their mental illnesses and gained admission into various psychiatric hospitals, as a criticism of the methods of psychiatric diagnosis.
kOEb1 TIL: Friday 13th Superstition has its origins in a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla. The uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous god Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow
QNEm9 TIL in Egypt, around 17000 divorce cases in 2018 cited "Candy Crush" as the cause of divorce.
0JVM TIL when Schwarzenegger was governor of California, he never lived in Sacramento. Instead he commuted 3 hours everyday… by private jet.