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TIL in northern Sweden, people say ‘yes’ by just inhaling loudly like slurping a noodle.

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neWgY TIL that early humans hunted animals by chasing them to exhaustion. "Persistence hunting" takes advantage of humans' two legs and ability to sweat, which makes us stronger distance runners than prey.
R78Ql TIL that In January 2017, the Icelandic Naming Committee ruled that parents could not name their child Hel "on the grounds that the name would cause the child significant distress and trouble as it grows up".
x6gab TIL of Lyodura, a brain surgery material that, unknown to the buyers, was tissue harvested by the seller from black market human corpses and carried fatal incurable prion disease. Over 150 people were infected before its ban in 1996
o0mA TIL Peter Sellers tried to change his will just hours before he died to prevent his entire fortune passing to his estranged fourth wife
yVnj8 TIL: Gavrilo Princep, the man who inadvertently started World War One when he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only 19 years-old when he killed the Archduke.