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TIL the woman who “restored” the picture of Jesus last August wants a cut of the profit the church is making from tourists wanting to see her work, so she can donate it to Muscular Atrophy charities.

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ZpAxG TIL about the Big Ape Theory (or Killer Ape Hypothesis The killer ape theory or killer ape hypothesis is the theory that war and interpersonal aggression was the driving force behind human evolution. It was originated by Raymond Dart in the 1950s.
neRGG TIL Middle aged men with resting heart rates of 80 beats or higher per minute are likely to die four to five years earlier than men with resting heart rates of 65 beats per minute or less.
118D TIL that Kevin Spacey, as a young actor, used his skill at impressions to pretend to be Johnny Carson’s son to get free theater tickets and enter nightclubs.
gr7Qb TIL of the last Kaua'i 'ō'ō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.
O106 TIL that the bumper to bumper traffic in much of New York is a legacy of one racist man who used billions of public infrastructure dollars to build ill-conceived highways in order to segregate and disenfranchise neighborhoods, while evicting over 250,000 of the city’s poor.