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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was given his name because, during his mother's pregnancy, she was observing a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when DiCaprio first kicked.

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VWn8 TIL your brain makes decisions before you realize it, according to researchers that used brain imaging to predict what choice people would make before they themselves were aware of having made a decision—prompting reconsideration of what we consider “free will”
G4g1 TIL that Target has a customer tracking and marketing algorithm / database so accurate it discovered a teen pregnancy.
KON5R TIL to just be allowed to try out for the US Olympic team for running the marathon, you have to run a marathon in under 2 hours and 19 minutes. That is the same thing as running 26 miles where each mile is done in around 5 minutes and 18 seconds.
rM9w TIL at a soccer match in Brazil in 2013, a referee stabbed a player to death. He was then quartered and decapitated using a sickle and his severed head was placed on a spike on the field.
JJQ TIL That the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history was up to 5,000 covert agents, and was carried out by the “Church” of Scientology.