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TIL the three wise monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) are sometimes portrayed with a fourth ‘do no evil’ monkey with his hands covering his genitals.

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6E67J TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
QJ1vX TIL there's a beach in Finistère polluted since 1983 by Garfield telephones coming out of a sunk container
4bj5 TIL about the 1918 public lynching of Mary Turner. Turner (8 months pregnant) was hung upside down and set on fire. While still alive, her abdomen was cut open, causing her child to fall to the ground where she watched the lynch mob stomp him to death.
Oowke TIL about Rubber Duck debugging, a name for solving a problem by trying to explain it to someone else
6E05X TIL During the Cold War, Soviet Union compiled a ultra meticulous map of Washington DC that are far more detailed than typical city maps we are all familiar with including details like precise width of roads, load-bearing capacity of bridges and location of water reservoir and pumping stations