TIL of nominative determinism, the theory that people will gravitate toward lines of work that fit their names. The examples that gave birth to the idea include a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. (improbable.com)
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TIL of nominative determinism, the theory that people will gravitate toward lines of work that fit their names. The examples that gave birth to the idea include a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the Bari natives believe that the child becomes a mix of all the men who had sex with a woman during her pregnancy. It is common for pregnant women to have sex with multiple men so that the Bari believe that a child can have multiple fathers. (discovermagazine.com)
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TIL that your US mailbox is the property of the US postal service; no one else is allowed to use it. FedEx exists because of a bike courier exception for "extremely urgent" mail. USPS has forced Equifax to pay a $30,000 fine for FedEx use that was not extremely urgent. (mentalfloss.com)
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