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TIL the girl from the famous 1981 Lego ad is now a 37 yo physician who owns 2 medical centers in Seattle, inspired by Lego (the gender-free Lego, not the ‘Friends’ line)

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ladB TIL that when hermit crabs encounter a new shell that is too big for them, they will wait around to see if another crab shows up to take it. They form groups of up to 20, holding onto each other in order from largest to smallest, each waiting to get into a larger shell that fits them.
78VNr TIL Fred Armisen was in a Chicago-based punk band called Trenchmouth
bEJ4 TIL Winston Churchill despised Gandhi and when he tried to hunger strike Churchill was in favor of letting him die
KOW9G TIL that our brains do their best to keep us from dwelling on our inevitable demise. A study found that the brain shields us from existential fear by categorising death as an unfortunate event that only befalls other people.
new69 TIL about Guédelon Castle, a medieval castle being built in France using only traditional tools and technology. Thirty-five full-time craftsmen and countless volunteers have been at work over twenty years and it's now once of France's biggest attractions, pulling in 300,000 visitors yearly.