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TIL sticky rice was used in the brick mortar during the construction of the Great Wall of China and is one of the factors that has kept it standing for so long!

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MeenK TIL that the fungus that turns ants into zombies and eventually sprouts out of them, doesn't control their brain. It's actually builds fabric around their muscles and controls them, leaving the brain healthy and in tact, up until to the moment of death
Pkoe TIL that the meals mentioned by Pippin in Lord of the Rings (breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, and snack) are considered actual meal times.
ANkLd TIL Pablo Picasso was influenced by the Japanese artist Hokusai's erotic woodblock print "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife." Picasso drew his own private version in 1903, titled Dona i Pop.
5D0D TIL the secret blend of 11 herbs and spices that made KFC famous is sold by Marion-Kay Spices under the name “99-X”.
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