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TIL shooting a thin stream of liquid from under your tongue is called gleeking and there's even a world record for most gleeking within 10 minutes

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Z8bPB TIL That the painting "The Concert" by Johannes Vermee, stolen in 1990 during the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft, is still considered by many experts to be the most expensive object ever stolen. It was valued at 250 million dollars in 2015.
d8pGQ TIL the average daily caloric intake in North Korea is 2,103.
OZv4 TIL that in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, originally the knights were going to ride real horses, but after it became clear that the film’s small budget would cover horses, they had them bang coconuts together instead to simulate hooves clattering.
M7BjV TIL about the 1937 marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead, causing national attention after an article was written in Life magazine. It led to the state of Tennessee introducing a new law setting the minimum marriage age as 14. Other US jurisdictions followed similarly.
BgZbW Today I learned a man survived 438 days lost at sea only to be sued for cannibalism when he returned