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TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!

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6Ydm TIL Habeas Corpus is a law because when the UK Parliament voted on it in 1679, they jokingly counted a fat guy as ten votes
LArd TIL that an estimated 2 million German women were raped during the later part of WWII. The majority of the rapes took place in the Soviet occupation zone. This is considered by some to be the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”.
XwgX TIL an MIT geek in the 70’s convinced a record label he had a band recording an album in LA. In reality he mixed the entire thing himself from old homemade demo tapes in a run-down basement in Boston. It only cost a few thousand dollars to create, and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide
9wgJG TIL The State of New Mexico was not named after the country Mexico.
KBj4 TIL the NY Times has a test that was able to figure out the town I’m from after just 25 questions about word choices. “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk”