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TIL: The creator of the Gil Sans font had sex with his sisters, daughters, and dog. He was named Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers

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p8rw4 TIL that the tongue twister “She sells seashells by the seashore” is based on the life of Mary Anning. Mary and her brother learned to find, identify and sell fossils in an effort to support their family after their father died.
jNLjQ TIL that Mark Twain wrote the very first novel that was ever written with a typewriter. That novel was Tom Sawyer
NXxJ6 TIL In “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), the skull on the movie poster is actually made of naked women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors.”
VygD TIL That while examining brain scans, neuroscientist Dr. James Fallon discovered he is a psychopath. While unknowingly viewing his own brain scan, he said, “It’s probably a psychopath… someone who could be a danger to society.
wLyoE TIL Cloacina was the Roman goddess of sewers a poem to her is attributed to Lord Byron, "O Cloacina, Goddess of this place, Look on thy suppliants with a smiling face. Soft, yet cohesive let their offerings flow, Not rashly swift nor insolently slow."