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TIL the Monty Python foot was painted by Italian artist Bronzino in around 1545

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JYvZ8 TIL the moon appearing larger on the horizon is known as the Problem of Luna Mendex and is actually an illusion of the eye. The illusion can be broken by cupping your hand into a fist and looking through it at the 'large' horizon moon. It will immediately shrink in size.
ep6y6 TIL sonar is lethal. At 235 decibels, the vibrations can rupture your lungs and cause brain hemorrhaging.
5Y5lD TIL a Canadian hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel from place to place had its arms and head ripped off after one day in Philadelphia having travelled peacefully around Canada for 26 days.
QOrp TIL that doctors in British Columbia are forbidden from talking about hockey during surgery.
P17vJ TIL in 2011 Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov collapsed at home from a heart attack & was declared dead. Days later, as she lay in the casket at her own funeral, she woke up. Seeing all the weeping mourners, she began yelling & was rushed to the hospital where she died again 12 minutes later of heart failure.