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TIL that the Incans, despite having a large empire, had no currency and no merchant class; citizens paid the government with labor and received necessities in return

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VjaD TIL in a 1980s Nike commercial, a Kenyan tribesman’s words were translated as “Just Do It”; however, American anthropologist Lee Cronk alerted Nike that the Kenyan really said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded back saying “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
ep0P4 TIL in Germany, escaping from prison is not punishable due to ‘freedom’ being a basic human instinct
MenxV TIL the first game made by the video game developer Treyarch, known for their work on the Call of Duty franchise, was called Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 and is the lowest rated game on IGN scoring a 0/10.
6E4v7 TIL When researchers blocked AMPA-receptor removal in rats, they found that the rats were prevented from forgetting the locations of objects. To forget, it seemed that the rat brain had to proactively destroy connections at the synapse. Forgetting is not a failure of memory, but a function of it.
KYKL6 TIL that Referees who officiate the final NFL Super Bowl also receive championship rings.