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TIL According to a myth, people whose faces fit the golden ratio seems more attractive to other people

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5YjYP TIL Diogo Alves committed the famous “Aqueduct Murders” 1836-1840 and was the penultimate person to be hanged in Portugal. Scientists wanted to study the brain of a serial killer and so preserved his head in a glass vessel. It is still viewed today in the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.
QJgyM TIL that crows use cars to crack open nuts. To avoid being run over, they drop their nuts at pedestrian crossing.
gmJ9 TIL BP refused to allow clean up workers to wear respirator masks while working with toxic chemicals following the Gulf spill because they were worried about the negative PR
nPDo TIL when 1978 TV series “Holocaust” aired in West Germany in 1979, a panel of historians would answer questions live afterwards. They ended up receiving thousands of calls from Germans saying this was the first time they heard about the Holocaust. “Holocaust” later became German ‘word of the year’.
x69BD TIL during making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan's actor Roger Clark was told that he had to do the horse lines again because "It’s a little too intimate. It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse". After hearing the recording back, the actor agreed to redo the lines.