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TIL about transculturation, a process in which cultures living together adopt one another's practices (generally benefitting the culture in power). An example is Our Lady of Guadalupe, who first appeared at a location already sacred in Aztec times and gradually became the patron saint of Mexico.

5YL98 TIL of Kirk Alexander, a man who ordered from his local Domino's almost every night for 10 years. When he hadn't ordered anything for 11 days at the end of 2016, the manager of that Domino's grew concerned, sent a deliveryman to check up on him and called 911. He was found in critical condition.
5York TIL The Horn Effect is when individuals believe negative traits are connected to each other. e.g. an observer assuming a physically unattractive person is morally inferior to an attractive person. The inverse, believing an attractive person has superior morals, is the Halo Effect.
Y791B TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.
mx6Qy TIL of the Chinese submarine Changcheng 361. After disappearing while submerged, she was later found when fishermen spotted a periscope above the surface. An engine failure had suffocated the entire crew; the ghost submarine had spent ten days drifting aimlessly below the waves.
w4eP TIL “Getting Someones Goat” comes from goats’ ability to calm race horses…opponents stealing the goat from the horses’ stall the night before a race would upset the horse and hurt their chances