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TIL the eye sockets of the Moai statues in Esater Island used to have eyes made of coral

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MdLa TIL Psychopaths Prefer Bitter Foods More than Normal People
b9R0p TIL - Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA was one of the backing vocalists singing the words "Moviestar, oh Moviestar, oh-oh-oh" on Harpo's hitsingle Moviestar from 1975
gMyP8 TIL that the hit song "Mellow Yellow" by Donovan is about a sex toy he saw advertised in the newspaper.
J18e4 TIL at least 25,000 workers died during construction of the Panama Canal between 1881-1914. Construction was started by France and finished by the USA . The deaths are attributed to a combination of disease and injuries resulting from construction and environmental disruption.
0wpov TIL Boris Yeltsin’s first trip to a Texas grocery store in 1988 shattered his belief in communism. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."