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TIL the way you pay for something affects how you perceive the transaction. Using cash “hurts” more because the loss of money is perceived to be more immediate, while using a credit/debit card decouples the purchase from the loss of money.

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p861b TIL in Korean, the word 동무 (同務/tongmu) was originally used to mean "friend" across the whole of Korea. After the North began to use it as a translation of the comrade, the word has fallen out of use in the south. instead, the south started to use 친구 (親舊/chingu) to mean friend
jNerj TIL about the concept of 'invented tradition', in which something believed or touted to be ancient is actually modern, such as ancestral Scottish clan-tartans, which are actually a 19th-century creation.
PYJeV TIL there's a crypto-currency called DOGECOIN. They even have a market cap of USD $60 million!
LKj0 TIL Eminem bought Elton John 2 diamond cock rings for his civil partnership
BgBAx TIL that in Bali, there is law dictating that buildings (except in certain scenarios) cannot be taller than a coconut tree or 15m.