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TIL The Sense of Being Stared At Has A Name - "Scopaesthesia"

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7rKn7 TIL that four bodies of members of the Romanov royal family of Imperial Russia, after execution in 1918, were buried at a Russian Orthodox site in Beijing, China, the 1920s. One of the two sites believed to hold the bodies, a cemetery, has since been made into a city park with a golf course.
oGYA TIL that all variations of tea – white, yellow, green, oolong, black and post-fermented – derive from the exact same plant.
7vYO TIL that in 2007 a gorilla escaped from his exhibit, grabbed and mauled a nearby woman, and then attacked a restaurant. It was later revealed it was caused by the woman making eye contact and smiling at him several times a week, which zookeepers told her not to do.
69MVW TIL the Five Stages of Grief do not always go in exact order from denial and anger to acceptance, and often vary from person to person. The psychiatrist who created the model said she regretted writing them in a way that is widely misunderstood.
Lj6Z TIL: An artist accidentally used £20,000 worth of rare comics to create a papier-mache sculpture for an art exhibition.