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TIL the name of Africa comes from an ancient name of Tunisia, which was a province of the Roman Empire

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P1Yrg TIL that less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world and a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas found that only 46% use lip-to-lip kissing in a romantic sense, excluding things like parent-child kissing.
er9E TIL: That studies of poorly performing medicines often get buried and positive studies are more than twice as likely to be published
DNGv TIL the word Maverick comes from Samuel Maverick, a 19th century Texan who refused to brand his cattle
7rVKr TIL about the halfway to hell club. It was an exclusive club formed by men who, while constructing the Golden Gate Bridge, fell from it but were saved by it's safety nets.
b6GKE TIL about Christiane F., a teen drug addict at the Bahnhof Zoo (Zoo Station), a hotspot for drug trafficking and underage sex work in West Berlin. Her book is widely read in German schools to warn about dangers of drug addiction.