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TIL That all Greek statues were fully coloured but lost their pigment over time

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7rPx TIL Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash) was pressured by his manager to go into hiding in France as a publicity stunt because their Scottish leg of the tour was selling slowly. Joe Strummer obliged but instead he “dicked around” in France and ran the Paris Marathon in April 1982.
ELr0 TIL that hammerhead sharks can reproduce asexually, one of the few animals to have that ability
6r5m TIL the satirical news outlet ‘The Onion’ is now worth more than most of the legitimate news outlets that it mocks
gMgMW TIL The USSR was the world's 2nd largest economy post-WW2 & the world's largest exporter of arms. By the 1940's Stalin announced that illiteracy had been eliminated & the USSR would produce the world's 1st satellite, the 1st human being in space & the 1st woman in space.
J1wYQ TIL: That in the 1700's, getting called a 'Beard-Splitter' meant that you had sex with a lot of women.