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TIL that a photographer taking pictures of air pollution unknowingly captured pictures of a couple committing suicide

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D1PxY TIL John Lennon's comment 'More popular than Jesus' created a huge backlash in the US Bible belt, with one Texas radio station holding a large bonfire of Beatles albums only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and sending the station temporarily off the air.
0w1EL TIL That people who engaged in deconstructive meditation practices (vipassana/insight meditation) were 65% more likely to report unpleasant meditation-related experiences when compared to non-deconstructive practices.
GADaJ TIL heterochrony – the mechanism by which giraffes acquired their long necks and us our big brains
xW4D TIL - When Pope Francis released white doves from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Rome the “symbol-of-peace” birds were immediately attacked by a seagull and a crow.
kWJe TIL that the island of Madagascar split off from India, not Africa