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TIL that people with synesthesia can see sounds, taste words, for them hearing a person talk can trigger seeing colors, even letters can cause that effect.

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X0kxP TIL if you cut down a cactus in Arizona, you can go to prison for 25 years. This is similar to cutting down rare trees.
rmk4 TIL the phrase ‘laughing your head off’ originates from a public execution in 18th century England, when an audience platform next to the scaffold collapsed and killed twenty onlookers, to the amusement of the man about to have his head cut off.
M77L7 TIL about “The Open Veins of Latin America,” a seminal historical analysis on resource exploitation since the Conquistadors, and how precious metal mining for bullets and aircraft feeds the Northern hemisphere’s depletion of resources and people from the Rio Grande to the Amazon
GY6QE TIL that many High Schools required boys to swim nude until the 1960s. Girls swam clothed.
6KZw TIL that, due to the ineffectiveness of swords against plate armor, German knights would grip the blade with both hands and use the pommel as a club when fighting armored opponents.