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TIL "addiction" was a Roman term for a slave, and originated from a latin myth where former slave Addictus would roam the earth with his chains attached, as he grew comfortable with the way they felt

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yQmn8 TIL Donald Duck systematically gets a portion of the votes in Finnish elections.
nY9b TIL that the English idiom “It’s all Greek to me” exists in many other languages. However, in most cases, instead of Greek the language identified as unknown is most often Chinese.
Y4Y7 TIL Power posing to boost testosterone as described in Amy Cuddy’s famous TED talk fails to replicate in independent studies
VBkoQ TIL that In US the religious books and bibles are the most popular adult genre
RrR6 TIL in an act of revenge after Miyamoto Musashi beat the two heirs of Yoshioka school in one-on-one combat, the entire school sent bowmen, gunmen and swordmen after him. Musashi responded by ambushing them, killing their figurehead leader and getting away.