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TIL German has a word for an improvement that makes things worse: verschlimmbesserung

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5VW9k TIL The wild ancestor of modern cattle was originally domesticated in India; The first cowboys were Indians.
XEeYk TIL there are tribes in India that use 500+ year old trees to make "living bridges" that can hold 50+ people at a time.
6nQX TIL of Neuroscientist Benjamin Libet’s idea of consciousness that is sometimes called “Free Won’t”: that our unconscious makes all our decisions for us, and the only free will we have is to “veto” its choices
YpgPB TIL Hitler and the Nazis were often high on methamphetamine, and this is credited for their success in the 1940 invasion of France - because they didn't have to rest. Hitler himself was also regularly injected with other hormones and steroids made from animal extracts.
0NjL TIL that in 2007, a Tennessee man on Death Row requested that, instead of a last meal, a pizza be donated to a local homeless person. The request was denied.