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TIL in Ancient Egypt, Pharoah Pepi II despised flies so he would keep naked slaves smeared with honey near him in order to keep flies away.

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78rPM TIL romance scams in the U.S. accounted for $304 million in reported losses by victims in 2020, quadruple what it was four years earlier. The average romance scam victim in Florida forked over $36,000 to their scammer, who they believed they were in love with after meeting them on a dating app.
PYpLO TIL about solved games. Solved games are games whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming both players play the best possible moves. Tic-tac-toe is easily solvable. Chess may never be fully solved.
epNO6 TIL philosopher Joseph Levine’s 1983 paper introduced the “explanatory gap” noting while “Pain is the firing of C fibers” is physiologically valid, it doesn’t make us understand how pain feels. Showing the challenge physicalists face in connecting physical properties to subjective experiences.
mxZgp TIL During the 2015 active shooter at the Navy facility in Chattanooga, TN, Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, one of four slain Marines, directed his junior troops to clear a nearby neighborhood park that was packed with children. They rounded up all of the children and hunkered down in a building nearby.
X01bE TIL the Sioux believe the Great Spirit created a race of giants triple the size of men, who were arrogant and denied the existence of a Creator. The Great Spirit released a flood upon the world, higher than the mountains. When the giants were all dead he created humans, smaller and weaker.