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TIL. That Greek statues were carved with a small penis because having a bigger package was considered grotesque and disgusting

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e0k1g TIL Despite being a French word, the French do not say "Encore!" at the end of a performance if they want a repeat. They instead say "bis!" (Repeat) or "une autre!" (another one).
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EJd0 TIL an old lady who bumped into Stephen King in the supermarket told him she didn’t like his writing and she preferred uplifting movies like Shawshank Redemption. When King told her he wrote that too, she replied ‘No, you didn’t.’, causing King to momentarily doubt that he was indeed the author.
9YREp TIL that there is a thing called the "sweater curse." Some knitters believe that knitting a sweater for a signifcant other and giving it to them as a gift will result in a breakup. A 2005 poll found that 15% of knitters have experienced it firsthand.