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TIL The guy who made the main theme and some music for BoJack Horseman is also the drummer for The Black Keys

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QbJL TIL that in 1372, the architect Yi Kaizhan was hired to build a fort along the Great Wall of China, and he ordered the exact number of bricks he needed. When his judgement was questioned, he ordered one more brick. The extra brick was never used.
vPOk8 TIL eating local honey that is made from plants that you're allergic to as a form of symptom relief actually doesn't have that much scientific backing.
dk7d TIL about a man who has both anterograde and retrograde amnesia, meaning he cannot form new memories, nor can he recall old ones. Clive Wearing can only ever remember the past few moments of his life, though he still feels love for his wife and can still play music
8aG5P TIL at its height, the British East India Company had a private military force twice the size of the actual British Army.
jYrM TIL We are born with around 300 bones and then it decreases to 206 bones by adulthood after some bones have fused together.