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TIL that women’s periods don’t magically sync with other women they’re in close proximity with. It’s just timing and confirmation bias.

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wL80P TIL about Oberammergau, a German village that vowed to put on a passion play every ten years if they were spared from bubonic plague. They were, and have put on this play since the 1600s, with the next being in 2020.
jN6Ba TIL that there is such thing as "the fear of running out of toilet paper" called acartohygieiophobia
loyxB TIL that asbestos is not banned in the United States. A proposed ban was shot down by the 5th circuit court in 1991 because the cost was between $450 and $800 million and would only save around "200 lives in a 13 year timeframe".
R7lB8 TIL Hitler saved 1 Jew from the Holocaust: a doctor who treated his mother for cancer
l6JB TIL the phrase ‘Politically Correct’ was coined by Mao Zedong.