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Today I learned 56% of Americans prioritize finances when finding a partner over love

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b9KZZ TIL about Makuragaeshi which are Japanese spirits that visit people at night to flip their pillows over. They're mentioned in stories from the Edo period to modern times. In ancient Japan, they believed the soul left the body during dreams and that it couldn't return if the pillow was flipped.
Wmmo TIL Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a title fight because he dreamt he would kill his opponent. A priest convinced him to change his mind. He fought, and killed the opponent.
5YbWB TIL that Black Sabbath spent more on cocaine during the recording of the Vol. 4 album than on the album itself
N7DxQ TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration
OO8R TIL that one of the hikers who found “Ötzi,” a 5000 year old mummy buried in ice in the Alps, was found dead, buried in ice, after a hiking accident in 2004. He is one of 7 people linked to the mummy to have died within the same year.