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TIL Sacha Baron-Cohen’s cousin is a world famous Autism reseracher

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56vn TIL The Golden Ass is the only Ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety
b9QlZ TIL Since reopening after undergoing an extensive facelift in October 2018, there are new rules and regulations, and a limit to the number of tourists allowed on Boracay island. There is no eating or drinking on the beach, no smoking, no fire dancing, and no commercial sandcastles
wX78 TIL The first king of the Kievan Rus was told by a priest that his horse would kill him, so he had the horse killed, visited its remains, and was killed by a snake that sprung from the horse’s skull.
w7r6 TIL that Goldman Sachs maintains its own proprietary programming language (Slang) that is known only to its employees.
W7RNL TIL about Cargo Cult, example being the Melanesian islanders during WWII in pacific theater. Once American and Japanese presence withdrawn in attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the military personnel!