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TIL Facial disfigurements creep us out, because our subconsciousness scans the disfigurement as a potential disease.

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R7LA1 TIL Our galaxy (the Milky Way) is part of a larger supercluster of 100,000 galaxies named Laniakea that stretches 500 million light years across!
omOW TIL that chipmunks are omnivores and occasionally eat birds and even mice.
7r1b7 TIL that in 1965, 21 yr old Al Kooper bluffed his way into the studio where Bob Dylan was recording Highway 61 Revisited. Although he didn't know how to play the Hammond organ or even turn it on, his improvised intro & off the beat riffs became the signature groove & sound of "Like A Rolling Stone".
oENA TIL the world population living in extreme poverty went from 94% of the world population in 1820, down to 9.6% of the world population in 2015.
78nlZ TIL that the suffix –stan when appended to a country's name means “place of,” or “where one stands” in Persian and Urdu.