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TIL the Pathenon base (stylobate) was built curved in the two directions in order to make it look perfect from the distance

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v17X7 TIL The Shining (1980) borrowed heavily from the previous Burnt Offerings (1976) - a haunted mansion requiring upkeep, a struggling writer with wife and son, fatherly violence toward the son, possession and slide into insanity, and getting sucked into black and white photos at the end
ZnWQ TIL that because of the decline in bee population, apple farmers in china are now pollinating the trees manually, using a paintbrush.
GYwLN TIL Fighting is allowed in Hockey
Dnkp TIL - Dave Grohl once took too much acid on a boat from England to Belgium and ran in circles for three hours hallucinating that tiny dinosaurs were attacking.
9Vvr TIL The English Horn is French, and the French Horn is German