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TIL Baghdad, considered to be currently among the least hospitable places to live on earth, was once the cultural and scholarship center of the world during the Islamic Golden Age.

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6Ea48 TIL there are “culture-bound syndromes” that are considered to be recognizable diseases only within a specific society or culture. Anorexia is considered a Western culture-bound syndrome.
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