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TIL There is sexually explicit cave art (NSFW)

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x6jro TIL Shops often play music with a slower tempo to encourage customers to move more slowly through the store, thus spending more time looking at products and increasing the likelihood of making a purchase.
a8Jg9 TIL people used to steal corpses and mummies to grind up into paint and medicines
jNxdj TIL of that time Peter Jackson tried to get Lee to scream as he was stabbed, only to be corrected. "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?" Lee said he asked Jackson. "Because I do."
WXd TIL The StarWars Kid filed a $250,000 Lawsuit against the families of students who uploaded the video
LQkJV TIL That the Earth's current "North Star" will be replaced in ~1000 years by the star Gamma Cephei, because it can be seen with the naked-eye and be closer to our celestial pole than the current North star, Polaris.