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TIL that intelligent people are more likely to trust others

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wVrM TIL Andy Warhol made a film which was one continuos shot of a man’s face receiving oral sex for 45 minutes.
NV5e TIL that self-mummification (a process called Sokushunbutsu) was practiced by Japanese Shugendō monks as the ultimate act of self denial. This ritual lasted around nine years, six of which the monk would be alive for.
yVej8 TIL beavers have felled trees 145 ft tall and nearly 4 ft in diameter and the largest known dam is 2,790 ft long
0w1py TIL Nakam was a group of about fifty Holocaust survivors who, in 1945, sought to kill Germans and Nazis in revenge for the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Abba Kovner, the group sought to kill 6 million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, "a nation for a nation".
8aoMZ TIL in China, the per capita GDP rose from $89 in 1960 to $10,000 today. The life expectancy rose from 43.7 years in 1960 to nearly 80 years today. The country was producing two new billionaires per week in 2017.