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TIL A Group of Owls Is Called A Parliament

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JYM9m TIL in Sichuan opera, there is a performance art specifically dedicated to changing theatrical masks so fast that it’s imperceptible. It’s called Bian Lian (“face changing”), and the sleight of hand technique behind it is classified as a level two national secret by China’s State Secrets Bureau.
9YQnp TIL Zeus created humans as balls with 2 heads, 4 arms & legs. He cut them in half because they were rolling around displaying too much power. After mutilating them, he felt bad. So he let the 2 halves embrace each other through sex, giving them a short sensation of their prior powers through orgasm.
VB6lD TIL the average person consumes about 5 grams of microplastics every week, roughly the weight of a credit card
MeA1A TIL of Hellfire Clubs, 18th century social clubs, extant in UK, where men and women gathered to perform socially unacceptable actions while simultaneously mocking religion, satirically, in a time when it was blasphemous to do so.
9wQV7 TIL the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 refers to a supposed newspaper article that said because of horses, in "50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure." It's an analogy for how new technologies (in this case cars) can take care of problems that seemed unsolvable.