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TIL: Sunglasses make people look more attractive because they give the illusion of a chiseled bone structure on top of a soft-featured face. The dark lenses cover up any asymmetrical oddities around eyes.

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mxabx TIL Codex Gigas, largest manuscript in the world was the work of a single scribe according to a legend he added devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. It is estimated it would have taken twenty years of non-stop writing to produce the work without the illustrations or embellishments.
4kprJ TIL that Scotland's name is derived from the Gaelic Irish settlers that the Romans called the Scotti
R7DYj TIL about the Bonnacon, a medieval mythical beast that had curling horns and a mane and took down enemies with a jet of caustic feces.
5Vn18 TIL cactus fossils don't exist
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