"Halloween" comes from the Lowland Scots contraction of "All Hallows' Even" (even = eve), itself equivalent to Old English "All Hallows' Eve" — literally "Saints' evening," with Christian origins.

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Anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay, took part in the only successful, nonviolent expeditions to the Sentinel Islands, this is extremely rare given the islands’ usual hostility to outsiders.
She was the only woman to go along on such expeditions, where all other expeditions failed.

Contacting them is illegal, the community must be left alone.

For their safety.

[Read for yourself here]

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The Royal Game of Ur: Ancient Mesopotamia’s Board Game was rediscovered in the tombs of Ur. Although we might have lost part of the original gameplay, it is still played after 4,600 years.

The picture on top includes the rules, don't forget to decipher them before playing.

[Click here to learn more]

[click here to play for free]

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The famous magician Harry Houdini died on October 31, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan, from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix.

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Slamming your car door could get you a warning or even a fine in Switzerland.

[Read more about it here]

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The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months by recycling urea into nitrogen, a process that helps protect their cells and tissues while they hibernate and freeze solid during the winter.

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In China you need the governments permission for reincarnation.


[Source]

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Today, 1 november 1952;

Ivy Mike’s thermonuclear blast vaporized Elugelab, created new elements, and left a 2 miles or about 3.22 km wide scar on the planet's surface.

The explosion was 500 times harder than the one on Hiroshima and wiped away all vegetation on the neighboring islands.


[read more here]

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Based on 2023 data, Djibouti has around 83 men per 100 women, with 610k women vs 510k men.

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The country with least females is Qatar, having about 266 men for every 100 women, this is one of the world’s largest gender gaps, caused in part by male migrant labor from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

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A Canadian study says lower general intelligence in childhood predicts greater racism and prejudice in adulthood.

Simplified: People who hate on other people for being different are very often simple minded because they are not smart enough to change their way of thinking.

[Source]

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For men, having an orgasm two or more times a week is a sign that he is more likely to live longer.

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Polyandry is a form of marriage in which women may legally be married to multiple men simultaneously.

It is among the rarest marital structures globally.

[Read more here]

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On November 2, 1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie.

Celebrated abroad as a symbol of African independence, his decades in power included policies and actions that persecuted Harari people, forcing many from their homes.

He was exiled during Italy’s invasion, returned to restore Ethiopian sovereignty, he was ultimately removed and murdered by a military coup in 1974 amid famine, repression, and widespread suffering.
Eritrea later won independence in 1993.

The Rastafari movement regards him as a messianic figure.

[read more here]

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The Seikilos epitaph as it may have sounded more than 2000 years ago.

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The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation.
Listen to the previous post to get an idea of how the melody sounded.

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A quipu (khipu) was a knotted‑cord system used by the Inca and other Andean peoples to record numbers, dates and accounts without alphabetic writing. Using colored strings and different knot types, quipu encoded precise numerical data and may also have represented narrative or mnemonic information. They are not used as a formal record‑keeping system today, though some cultural knowledge and use of knotted cords persists locally and researchers continue to study them.

[Source]

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Chevrolet was founded on November 3, 1911, by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.

Chevrolet’s first cars (1912) and Durant’s later business moves helped shape the long competition between Ford and Chevrolet which drove innovation and expanded the US auto industry.

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