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TIL about Fossil Fuel Subsidies: The $760 Billion Lie About 'Free Market' Energy

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ZpeGD TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)
Megnm TIL The English language used to have six more letters: thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn (ƿ), yogh (ȝ), ash (æ), and ethel (œ). They all disappeared by the 15th century.
J1Dm1 TIL that Alexander the Great, despite his military conquests and reputation as a formidable leader, was known for being influenced by Persian culture. After defeating the Persian Empire, he adopted several Persian customs, including wearing Persian clothing, marrying a Persian princess named Roxana
yQnQa TIL that during Ted Kaczynski's (The Unabomber), sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. The experiment involved psychological torment and humiliation.
PY6NZ TIL Artificial Banana Flavored Food tastes more like what bananas used to taste like and bananas today don't taste as they should