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Qjea TIL of Professional Mourners. In ancient Rome, these paid sad people would rip out their hair and scratch at their faces. Having many of them signified great wealth, and the Roman government eventually had to impose limitations on how many the deceased person could have.
b6rYE TIL about "Refrigerator Women", a trope in fiction where a female character is killed or seriously injured as a plot device to motivate the male characters, an example of which being the death of Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
5Yaer TIL of the Targa Florio, an automobile race through small mountain villages in Sicily, where spectators sat, stood right next to, or even on, the road, leading at least one race car driver to call it "totally insane." The race was held annually for around 70 years.
PM1L TIL The only country where cannabis is completely legal and du jure is North Korea
5Lmp TIL Criminal psychopaths don’t involuntarily feel emotional empathy for others, but seem to be able to intentionally turn it on and feel it.