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TIL that those old pictures on the wall your grandma had that moved when you moved from side to side were called lenticular prints

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Bgw5D TIL the Town of Ixonia, Wisconsin Was Named by “Pulling Letters From a Hat Until a Name Was Formed”. It is the Only Town in the USA With This Name.
vEPr TIL There is a trade agreement being secretly proposed in countries such as America and Australia, which would allow corporations to sue the government if they attempted to, in any way, lower their potential income, such as providing cheap alternatives to branded medicines.
BVYr TIL: Chris Ryan (ex-SAS) walked 300km (190mi) to escape Iraq. During his escape he suffered: radiation poisoning, muscle atrophy and lost 36lb. It’s the longest escape ever made, beating the last record holder (another sas soldier) by 100mi.
ejb TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife’s name was Zelda, and the video game character was named after her.
d81Rj TIL that baby and children’s brains look/seem to function very similarly to an adult brain on psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, etc)