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TIL Missing Post Office, an artwork by Japanese artist Saya Kubota, is a "post office" where undeliverable letters are collected. Addressees include deceased individuals, future descendants, first loves to whom writers were unable to express their feelings, themselves, and long-time favorite items.

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ADVbd TIL developers in China built a sex theme park ‘Love Land’ with naked human sculptures, giant replica genitals, sex technique workshops and a photo gallery on the history of sex. It was deemed a negative influence on Chinese society and the government demolished it before it could open
b6Zp0 TIL that in the Joan Miró Foundation, in Barcelona, you can see a functional mercury fountain created by Alexander Calder. It has to be kept in an airtight glass casing at all times because of the toxic fumes.
jda TIL there wasn’t an actual script for the original Iron Man. In “primitive rehearsals”, RDJ and Jeff Bridges basically ad-libbed their way to full scenes while being coached by Jon Favreau.
Oowlg TIL Aztec Emperor Montezuma realised his own seers were all charlatans because they’d failed to see that the Spanish were coming.
MoV TIL that the serial number on a Euro note shows what country it is from & therefore some could be worth more than others if the Euro collapses.