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TIL the Japanese have onomatopoeias for essences as well as sounds. A notable example is “pika pika,” meaning “to shine”

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LNAp TIL There is a vigilante group of women in India whose mission includes beating up abusive husbands.
415R TIL that MIT students designed an application that will randomly generate a nonsense academic paper; one of these generated papers was actually accepted to the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
nObY TIL that Lactase Persistence, the ability of humans to digest milk as an adult, is only common among Europeans and those of European ancestry, as a unique mutation. Most of the global population, including 90% of Asians and 100% of Native Americans, have some degree of lactose intolerance.
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