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TIL many large fruits are considered “ghosts”, because large animals like the giant sloth that used to disperse them have gone extinct

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E1d9X TIL Rage Against the Machine unsuccessfully sued the State Department for using their song "Killing in the name of" in torture methods at Guantanamo Bay.
rRoee TIL: British pub names are derived from the picture chosen for the pub. Back in the old days most of their customers were illiterate and could only recognise a pub by its picture.
8onV TIL that author Anaïs Nin juggled two husbands (one in NY, one in LA) who only knew of each other after her death. To maintain the double life, she kept a “lie box” containing two sets of prescriptions and chequebooks in different names.
0wwpA TIL of endowment effect, hypothesis that people overvalue things just because they own them
YpePx TIL about Ralph Lauren, the billionaire fashion mogul. His last name was Lifshitz but he changed it to Lauren when he was 16 because it had the word 'shit' in it and other children used to make fun of him.