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TIL The opposite phenomenon of a déjà vu exists and is called jamais vu. It could be described as a person who does not recognise a word or, a person or place, despite rationally knowing that its known already.

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p8rVe TIL about five attempts to ban coffee throughout history: in Mecca in 1511, in the 16th century by Italian clergymen, in 1623 by Ottoman leader Murad IV who created punishments for drinking coffee, in 1746 by the Swedish government, and 1777 by Frederick the Great of Prussia
Lka8P TIL The year 2020 was nominated by Time magazine to be one of "the worst years to be alive" in modern history
QNLEp TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."
b9y7p TIL Susan B. Anthony, although known for work for women's suffrage, was also an abolitionist: she collected anti-slavery petitions when she was 17, and in her 30's she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
7JrZ TIL that Switzerland has accidentally “invaded” Liechtenstein three times.