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TIL A man lost in the Australian outback for 6 days without food or water survived by eating ants

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kJ0Qg TIL in 1930s, Hollywood self censored films to appease Nazi party. Negative depictions of Germany was deleted and any portrayal of Jewish persecution was banned by studios.
1aNG4 TIL Persian King Cambyses won the battle of Pelusium against Egypt by using their reverence of animals against them - his front line was dogs, sheep, cats, ibises & whatever other animals the Egyptians hold dear, & the Persian soldiers had the image of Bastet (cat goddess) painted on their shields.
kl85 TIL French poet Gérard de Nerval supposedly took a lobster on walks in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris on the end of a blue silk ribbon, saying “they are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy like dogs do.”
jNGgR Today I learned feeling guilt and remorse for doing an addictive act makes us do it again and again. On the other hand forgiving ourselves and seeing things optimistically makes overcome the acts easily.
4krX6 TIL an estimated 200,000 underage American men and women lied about their age in order to enlist during World War II.