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TIL there’s a word for the “seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects”: resistentialism

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P1MvG TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s.
1xoV TIL starting in the 1960s, the American Heart Association advised the public to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for a “healthy heart.” The American Heart Association was founded in part by the makers of Crisco.
69e48 TIL that the Irving Family is the single largest landowner in Maine with 1,267,792 million acres owned, and they've also planted more than 1 billion trees across the United States and Canada
bgbZ TIL that John Stewart picked up the habit of scribbling on his script during The Daily Show after quitting smoking.
Y76er TIL that one of the earliest known board games, Senet, dates back to around 3100 BCE and was enjoyed by both Egyptian commoners and pharaohs.