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TIL there is a tower made out of skulls in Serbia

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aLkb TIL Conker’s Bad Fur Day, N64 game famous for adult themes storyline, actually came after an innocent and child-appropriate game starring Conker released a year before.
VMPJG TIL in the early 2000s, the UK and Spain almost came to an agreement to share sovereignty over Gibraltar. It was put to a vote, and 99% of the population of Gibraltar rejected Spain having sovereignty over the rock. Therefore, the place remains a British Overseas Territory.
XELoQ TIL about the holiday paradox and why time seems to go by more quickly as we age and when we are having fun. Our brain encodes new experiences, but not familiar ones, into memory, and our retrospective judgment of time is based on how many new memories we create over a certain period.
nynb TIL there was a US Army Sniper (Chris Kyle) that was so successful in the US-Iraq War he was dubbed the “The Devil Of Ramadi” and had a bounty on his head of $80,000. 225 confirmed kills.
6EOGw TIL that air conditioning caused various shifts in demography, notably that of the USA starting from the 1970s. Until 1970, the birth rate in the spring was lower than during the other seasons, but the introduction of air conditioning leveled out this difference at the end of the 20th century