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TIL About the Kogi people who are thought to be last surviving pre-Colombian culture past the Aztecs. Their high priests are chosen at birth and spend their first 9 years of life secluded in a cave in total darkness learning the ways of “Aluna”(Mother Earth). The cave is said to represent her womb

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epPY6 TIL that Nietzsche's central concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence were in part inspired by long-forgotten natural scientist Johannes Gustav Vogt's "Force: A Realistic and Monistic Worldview" (1878), a work nowhere to be found and de facto lost for all of us
6ERG8 TIL In the 19th Century, Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist, estimated that the speed of a single thought can travel along our nerves up to 120 m/s, or ~270 mph.
5eBr TIL there is a record for the “highest formal dinner”, where competitors must have a three course meal with a formal table and chairs and wear formal attire at the highest altitude. The record is held at 6,800m (22,300ft) in Tibet.
omVR TIL on July 17, 1938, Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan entered aviation infamy and gained his nickname when he “accidentally” flew from New York to California but ended up in Ireland after being denied permission to cross the Atlantic by authorities.
nWkgb TIL that in 1977 the city of Florence, Oregon accidentally banned having sex.