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TIL there are two versions of the Mona Lisa
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TIL that a man tried to make his suicide look like murder by tying the gun to helium balloons
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TIL that in ancient Athens, both male and female prostitutes were required to pay a specific tax called the ‘pornikon telos’, reflecting the state’s regulation and taxation of the sex trade.
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TIL "zoanthropy" is a psychological pathology wherein a person believes that they are a type of non-human animal. E. G. "clinical lycanthropy", the belief that they turn into a wolf.
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TIL: Like many deep-sea cephalopods, vampire squid lack ink sacs. If threatened, instead of ink, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light is ejected from the arm tips.
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TIL during the 1967 war between Biafra and Nigeria, Biafra established a puppet state called the Republic of Benin, that lasted one day before being occupied by Nigeria.