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In order to allow everyone to remember the pain of their mother when they were born, after everyone becomes an adult, on the day of his birthday, he will be tied to a pillar and plucked the leg hair equal to his age, so that he can feel the pain of his mother when he gave birth, and this personal experience has also become a strong emotional bond between the generations of Maugham.
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One of the local customs of the Eskimos that surprised me was that the old man floated away with the water. The old man was taken to a floating iceberg and floated away with the sea. In harsh natural conditions, they either froze to death or starved to death.
But the Eskimos believed that people would go to another world after death, and that the elderly would rather be sent to another world with dignity than become a burden to their families.
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Madagascar "Turning the Dead Day". People all over the world have their own ways of remembering their loved ones, but Malagasy people take the most offbeat, even terrifying, way. The African island nation has a traditional "Turning the Dead Day".
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The most incredible thing is that the scattered city-states of ancient Greece actually had a unified so-called ancient Greek language, which is completely beyond the general law of language development.
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United States. Every Chinese New Year, the 1,327 lanterns on the Empire State Building, a landmark building in New York, will change the red, white and blue colors of the American Stars and Stripes to the red and gold that Chinese Americans love, to express their congratulations on the Chinese New Year. This has been going on for 6 years now.
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The most incredible thing is that they can decipher any ancient script except oracle bone inscriptions. It's as if they made it themselves, and it's amazing.
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The most incredible thing is that the traces of fraud in some "ancient civilizations" are so serious, and so many people do not doubt it.
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The most incredible thing is that ** was chosen by everyone. The most incredible thing about us is that everyone is running to incredible places.
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Chopping off the fingers and toes of a dead child, a long time ago, I don't know if there is still one. It is said that if a family gives birth to a child and does not survive, the fingers and toes of the child will be chopped off when buried, symbolizing that the child's soul will not die again if he is reincarnated, and it is quite scary to think about.
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The most incredible thing is that the ancient European aristocracy was all married by close relatives, and what is even more incredible is that even if they were born mentally retarded, they could inherit the throne.
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Alexander was the first emperor through the ages, and before his death, he did not arrange for his wife and son to sit firmly in the empire and seize power. Octavian had daughters and grandchildren, and it turned out that his heir to the throne was actually his adopted son or the son of his former political enemy.
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Binary Thinking, Pirate Civilization. It brought a scientific outlook, but it also brought conquest and killing.
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In the Zoe tribe in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, after the baby teeth fall out, they have to make a cut in the chin, cut it into an ornament with wood, and insert it inside.
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It's their inexplicable superiority.
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Loss of humanity, extreme self-interest, the law of the jungle.
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There is no thick black abroad.
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If people do not do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed.
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One of the best cultures in the West and Japan is that you can have the greatest freedom, but you can't influence others, and others have freedom and they can't affect you
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There was a war because of religion. Think about it, it's religious extremism now.
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I don't like to fight with words, I like "duels".
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God created everything, but it is nonsense.
The main points are as follows:
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