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Psychology suggests who you end up close to isn't decided by looks or shared passions — it's proximity, plain nearness, because liking tends to grow for whoever we simply keep seeing, again and again

For nearly a century, absinthe was banned across the Western world as a hallucinogen that drove artists to madness — then chemists tested the old pre-ban bottles and found nothing special at all, no secret in the wormwood, just an unusually strong liquor that people drank far too much of

On the island of Sardinia there's a cheese so extreme it's been outlawed across Europe — a pecorino deliberately left open for flies to lay their eggs in, so that by the time it reaches the table it's alive with thousands of tiny maggots, eaten while they're still squirming

The densest place that has ever been measured on Earth was a single Hong Kong block where 33,000 people lived stacked in six and a half acres — a self-built maze of 350 towers raised without a single architect, so tightly packed that sunlight never reached the lowest floors
