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TIL The Cult of Pythagoras didn’t eat beans because they thought you lose your soul when you fart.

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byQZ TIL Hans Zimmer composed the music for the Spider Pig song in The Simpsons Movie.
KOEyw TIL Japanese dragons have 3 toes, whereas Chinese dragons have 4-5. The Japanese believe this is because dragons come from japan, and the further they travelled, the more toes they gained
OMog TIL In 2011 3-D mapping revealed an ancient Mayan city under a Guatemalan rain forest
QQLM TIL two million citizens of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia held hands in 1989, forming a 600 km (370 mi) human chain to protest against Soviet occupation. The Soviet Union threatened “catastrophic consequences”, but ended up peacefully giving the states their freedom.
9YJ5r TIL there was a cat named Oscar (Unsinkable Sam) who survived 3 shipwrecks in WW2. At one point he was found clinging to a piece of wood floating in the water and when found he was described as “angry but quite unharmed”.