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TIL people built entire houses just to piss their neighbours off.

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X0omR TIL Hippocrates believed that hair was hollow and its purpose was storing semen, which was created in the brain. As men went through puberty the semen would flow into the hair all over their bodies. Women lacked body hair but had long head hair to more readily absorb semen during intercourse.
0wGKv TIL actor Jon Heder’s famous dance finale in the cultural phenomenon comedy movie "Napoleon Dynamite" was shot with a roll of about 10 minutes of film left. Heder danced three times, and the entire dance sequence in the final cut was taken from those. The film earned $46M from a budget of $400K.
Y7PB TIL that the annual cost of religious tax exemptions is 71 billion, nearly 4 times greater than the budget for NASA
DQO9j TIL that in 2001, the NASA spacecraft Odyssey detected vast amounts of water ice just below the surface of Mars. This discovery revolutionized the search for extraterrestrial life and made Mars one of the most promising candidates for future human colonization.
pYPMe TIL that during the 2022 Asia Rugby Sevens Series, the 2022 Asian Classic Powerlifting Championship and the 2023 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships a Song created "to boost protesters' morale" was played instead of Hong Kong's actual national anthem