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TIL that Tinder prices your subscription differently based on your age

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nWLXP TIL about the kingdom of Iberia and Albania. They were both nations in the caucasus completely unrelated to the European peninsula and balkan country.
jNMwE TIL flipping someone off dates back to before recorded history. The first written record of it's use was in a Greek play call "The Clouds", where a student gives Socrates the finger in response to a question about basic poem structure.
wLdlJ TIL The Kreung Tribe of Cambodia builds love huts where teenaged girls can have sex with different men till they find ''Mr Right''.
PQ6O TIL execution by elephant was commonly used in South and Southeast Asia for centuries because, unlike the horse, the elephant has no qualms about killing humans, and can be trained in detail: told to make the death quick and merciful (crush the head) or prolonged and painful (tear limb from limb)
4MwN TIL 7up originally contained lithium