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TIL that 42% of motorcyclists who died in an accident were drunk

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LkeeZ TIL during WWII, British spies spread misinformation that anti-malaria drugs would help prevent the typhoid epidemic, in order to waste German medical supplies
Bgokd TIL When painting the Mona Lisa over many months, "to keep his subject (Lisa Gherardini) relaxed and entertained, Da Vinci had six musicians to play for her and installed a musical fountain invented by himself. Different, beautiful works were read out loud and a white Persian cat and a greyhound ...
R9Ba TIL Quentin Tarantino approached Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love to play “Lance” and “Jody” in the movie Pulp Fiction but they declined
R7A0w TIL that Baker's Chocolate is named after the company founder James Baker and is not just called that because it is a chocolate that is used by people who work as a baker.
N7oEE Like clockwork, every 26 seconds, seismometers across multiple continents have detected a mysterious pulse since at least the early 1960s, and no one knows why.