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TIL in 1974 Marina Abramovic completed a 6 hour performance art exhibit where she stood in front of a table of 72 objects (including a loaded gun) and let the audience do whatever they wanted with her. The purpose was to find out how far people are willing to go. Video describes her experience.

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1mKd TIL even when taking dinosaurs into account, the modern day blue whale is the largest animal to ever live.
XEVBj TIL: Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.
WLl9 TIL that PC is the gaming platform of choice in China…because consoles have been banned since early 2000s
ADWNg TIL: The film "The Hobbit" caused as many as 27 animals deaths during production. One horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn off by wire fencing, several chickens were mauled to death by unsupervised dogs, and one horse was hobbled and left on the ground for three hours.
7rwwM TIL the town of Two Egg, Florida has their own local monster, described as a ‘small Bigfoot’. His name is the Two Egg Stump-Jumper