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TIL your brain makes imaginary monsters when you stare in a mirror.

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dDyKE TIL that in 1016 Edmund Ironside, King of the English, was assassinated while on the toilet by an assassin who hid inside the toilet.
4kkjX TIL that the viceroy caterpillar camouflages itself as bird poop to avoid predation.
mxNlY TIL that, after binge-watching Breaking Bad, Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston praising him for his portrayal of Walter White.
D1Plg TIL of a millionaire that hid treasure somewhere in the Rockie Mountains and gave several clues in a poem, four people have died looking for it
5VV1B TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the "Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands", a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.