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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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JYJ0v TIL an episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia because it said "spiders are harmless"
4ka1g TIL that worldwide, more than 10 percent of marriages are between first or second cousins.
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
4akg TIL Neil Armstrong’s boots are still on the moon along with all the others from the Apollo missions. This was to reduce the weight they had to bring back. The silicone and synthetic fabrics have probably off-gassed and degraded so they’d likely turn to powder if touched.
7rEXL TIL Mexico City's metro system transports some five million users every day for the extremely low price of about six pesos (roughly $0.30 cents)