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TIL Unibrows are attractive in Tajikistan

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egyn TIL that the first person to discover sperm, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, kept his discovery secret for 23 years out of fear of embarrassment.
d8yvZ TIL that the live penguins that starred in Batman Returns (1992) had their own refrigerated dressing rooms and a swimming pool. The set was kept cold for them. Danny DeVito was the only one who was comfortable, because of the extensive face prosthetics, heavy padding, and heavy coat he had to wear.
wkBo TIL that it took 5 years to make the stop action movie Wallace and Gromit, taking a whole days worth of work to film one second worth of movie.
ADldB TIL the Russian mafia smuggled grain alcohol to Eastern Europe by dying it blue, labeling it s windshield-wiper fluid, cologne, mouthwash and cleaning solvents and once overseas removing the dye and selling the alcohol as high end liquor
xVryB TIL of super recogniser's. They can remember 80% of the faces they have seen, and have been known to outperform computers. Some are employed by the British intelligence/police. Two of them was used to identify the suspects in the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 just by reviewing CCTV