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TIL that in the greeks myths there was the Unknown God, a placeholder for those gods yet unknown to the ancient greeks .

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6EpwX TIL Ressentiment is a sense of hostility toward an object that one identifies as the cause of frustration, i.e. an assignment of blame for one's frustration. The sense of inferiority complex and jealousy in the face of the "cause" generates a rejecting value system which attacks the perceived source
OVY6 TIL You can’t breathe while pooping because your epiglottis closes and you use the air pressure in your lung to push out the.. waste.
VBMWD TIL in 2019 one of Russia’s troll farms was evicted by the building owners after repeated bomb threats.
PYnNn TIL that a single species of spiders reproduces by a process known as “traumatic insemination”, in which the male sedates the female and proceeds to pierce her abdomen with one of its two penises to directly deposit sperm on its ovaries.
LpVp TIL that a book attributed to Penelope Ashe was actually written by a group of 24 journalists. It was designed to be deliberately terrible with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book became a bestseller in 1969.