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TIL Roman Fathers Could Sell Their Kids Into Slavery – But Only Three Times

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kJ0Ne TIL While often used interchangeably, hot chocolate and hot cocoa are technically different things
MeMy7 TIL that The Dirty Dozen was inspired by a WWII paratrooper squadron called The Filthy Thirteen, who used to wear warpaint and mohawks into war, and were famous for disregarding military rules and laws.
VM68m TIL 'fight or flight' is actually a description of the male response to acute stress. The female response can be more accurately described as 'tend and befriend'. This has implications for how we think about what stress does to our bodies and how best to cope with and recover from it.
kLN5 TIL when a 7ft NBA player named Reggie Harding attempted to rob a Detroit gas station with a mask, the attendant said “I know it’s you, Reggie.”, to which he replied “No, man, it ain’t me”
MerxV TIL that while performing the first space walk in human history, Alexey Leonov’s spacesuit inflated so much he couldn’t get back inside his space capsule. He had to let air out of his suit while still in the vacuum of space and was barely able to fit back through the airlock.