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TIL: Singerie is an art movement from the Baroque period prominently featuring anthropomorphic monkeys performing human tasks

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ne61o TIL what 8D audio is. It's where songs have been edited with special reverb and mixing to make it seem like the audio is moving in a circle around your head.
GYBe4 TIL before his murder, James Fannin made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The Mexican soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body.
wojM8 TIL that in 2020, a bizarre new type of extinct deep-sea plesiosaur was discovered in Norway. Despite being 5 to 5.5 meters (16-18 ft) long, the marine reptile's head was tiny, being only 20 centimeters (8 inches) long. It also had a small brain, extremely large eyes, and likely ate squid.
78DvP TIL that if light moved slower than the speed of sound, our perception of reality would fundamentally change, as we’d hear events before seeing them.
xV80D TIL that gays in Hong Kong started using the word "comrade" (同志) in the '80s as a way to spite the Chinese Communist Party for its mistreatment of sexual minorities in the mainland. Today, it is one of the primary terms LGBT people in the Chinese-speaking world use to refer to one another.