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TIL Swedish children dress up as witches ("påskkärringar") during Easter, going door-to-door with decorated twigs and drawings in exchange for candy, based on old folklore about witches flying to "Blåkulla" to dance with the devil
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Swedish easter celebrations history traditions delicious food | Gustavs Kitchen
Discover the rich traditions of Swedish Easter, from little witches and decorated birch twigs to the spectacular food at its heart.gustavskitchen.se
TIL Spartans were paedophile and slave owners. Infanticide was a common practice in Sparta. They also took money from Persians to fight against Athens in the Peloponnesian war.
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Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part I: Spartan School
This is Part I of a seven part series (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Gloss., Retrospective) comparing the popular legacy of Sparta (embodied in films like 300) with the historical ancient state. Toda…A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
TIL about Manichaeism, which was once a major world religion. Beliefs included the idea that God is not actually omnipotent, harvesting is an act of murder against plants, and Adam and Eve were the children of demons.
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One of my favorite things about being a parent is that I'm constantly learning fascinating facts about the world - stuff that I normally would not be exposed to.
My child's current obsession? Drawing flags.
So yesterday I bought her a book about flags and we learned about the #Wiphala (her favorite flag in the book) - "a square emblem commonly used as a flag to represent some native peoples of the Andes."
Find out more about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiphala
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#TIL that #bees have been around since the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and ancient bees seem to have also gone through a mass extinction!
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First Evidence for a Massive Extinction Event Affecting Bees Close to the K-T Boundary
Bees and eudicot plants both arose in the mid-late Cretaceous, and their co-evolutionary relationships have often been assumed as an important element in the rise of flowering plants.journals.plos.org
TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:
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"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"
A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 🤯
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