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TIL that in Thomas More's 1516 book "Utopia" (the origin of the word), there are no lawyers in the ideal society

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kWMB TIL psychologists widely condemn “experiential avoidance”, the conscious effort to avoid certain feelings or thoughts. It can lead to social anxiety, self-harm and other problems.
aVRA TIL Micro USB cables are designed to absorb the mechanical wear of the connection, so that after thousands of connections and disconnections only the cable needs to be replaced instead wearing out the port on the device.
XELgj TIL a lawyer used his will for practical jokes. He gave a house to 3 men who hated each other, stocks in a brewery to preachers, shares of a racetrack to each ministers "except Spracklin, who shot a hotelkeeper", and gave the rest to whoever had the most kids in 10 years.
wkv7 TIL that the Belzec extermination camp is rather unknown because out of the approximately 600,000 people to be executed there, only one or two camp inmates survived WWII to tell the world about the camp.
Egd47 TIL that the Nazis had plans to establish a museum called "The Museum of an Extinct Race" that would showcase Jewish artifacts and culture as a testament to the eradication of Jewish people. Fortunately, the museum was never realized due to the Allied victory in World War II.