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TIL How Disney's Animated Hair Became So Realistic, From 'Tangled' To 'Encanto'

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8epyL TIL that the longest word in the English language is over 189,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to pronounce
KE04 TIL china makes fake rice out of plastic and sells it as normal rice
KYgaG TIL Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been defined in a variety of ways by MyPerfectWords.
wLQk6 TIL In 1981 a scientist who was researching medical uses for magic mushrooms was killed in a robbery. The top suspects confessed to the crime on tape and their fingerprints were at the scene yet they were never charged, the DEA later admitted they destroyed the evidence linking them to the crime.
E1wQ7 TIL that there is no physical description of Jesus Christ in the Bible. All current evidence and portrayals of his appearance are based on cultural settings, political settings and theological contexts.