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TIL the idea of a "World Turtle" is centuries old, inspiring the Discworld novel series, as well as the phrase "turtles all the way down"

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69X4J TIL about Turkish oil wrestling a traditional sport where participants called pehlivan (wrestlers) or baspehlivan (master wrestlers), wrestle while covered in oil which makes it harder to grab each other
VBMMk TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment was ended because the principle researcher's girlfriend, a psychologist in her own right, observed the experiment and told him it was wrong and that she didn't like him because of it--not because he determined of his own accord that it was unethical
VMbG0 TIL that with only 324 households declaring ownership of a swimming pool on their tax form and fearing tax evasion, Greek authorities turned to satellite imagery for further investigation of Athens' northern suburbs. They discovered a total of 16,974 swimming pools.
8eKlG TIL that life expectancy at birth probably averaged only about 10 years for most of human history
e0bkk TIL In 1989 a Crane Operator in San Francisco has Dumped a Stone Parking Barrier in the Golden Gate Park. 4 Years Later local Hindus discovered that stone and began worshipping it until the authorities remove it in 1994.