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TIL that the term Scapegoat stems from an ancient goat sacrifice ritual in Ancient Judaism and likely older 2400 BC Ebla (Modern day Syria)

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OoG8e TIL Keiko the Orca, of Free Willy fame, died after only about a year and a half after being fully released due to a failure to adapt to life in the wild. The project to free him cost roughly US$20 million.
dDJ5K TIL about “Christine”, a mysterious person who repeatedly calls hairdressers across New Zealand and Australia and sets up appointments, which are always no-shows. “Christine” asks the hairdresser to describe, in great detail, various scenarios involving women getting their hair shaved or styled.
pdXG TIL that the name ‘Aspirin’ was originally a trademark belonging to German pharmaceutical company 'Bayer’, but after Germany’s loss in WWI the company was forced to hand over the trademark as a part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
QJ8Kp TIL whenever Abraham Lincoln felt the urge to tell someone off, he would compose a “hot letter.” He’d pile all of his anger into a note, “put it aside until his emotions cooled down,” Doris Kearns Goodwin once explained on NPR, “and then write: ‘Never sent. Never signed.’
kJnZ4 TIL the dark-grey color we see when we close our eyes isn't black, but Eigengrau (intrinsic grey)