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Til that some parents are naming their children Pandemic-inspired names

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9YmRB TIL of four interwoven studies of smokers, found that sadness increases cravings, frequency of smoking, and volume of puffs, and also predicts smoking relapses, even decades later.
VMZZk TIL The infamous Shirts against the Blouses basketball game in Chappelle’s Show actually happened and Prince was as good as Charlie Murphy says he was. Prince also had blueberry pancakes served after the game.
rRn61 TIL that DNA companies to that analyze your DNA to find where your local origins are from, are just guesses at best. Identical twins who sent their probes in, didn’t get same results. Experts in this video state that those analysis are only a product for entertainment with low accuracy.
po8N TIL of Jeanne de Clisson. After her husband was beheaded by the french, she sold all of her land and holdings to fund a pirate army. She hunted and destroyed all the French ships that they could. When she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
npBB TIL that Japan has a legend that Jesus did not die on the cross, but traded places with someone else. He ran from the authorities and fled to Japan. Upon arrival, Jesus raised a family and earned the reputation as a “long-nosed goblin.”