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TIL Joy Division’s iconic “Unknown Pleasures” album image is a representation of the radio signals from the first reading of a pulsar in 1967

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GGlJ TIL: 84% of Egyptians believe apostates from Islam (ex-Muslims) should face the death penalty. 82% believe adulterers should be stoned.
wQbJ TIL a man asked Samsung for a phone in exchange of a drawing he made of a dinosaur. Samsung sent him a phone with the drawing printed on the phone case.
yVbNX TIL: The Trauco are dwarf or goblin like creates in Chile mythology who live deep in the forest, are incredibly ugly, and have no feet. However, they are extremely alluring to young women. Since they are irresistible due to their sexual potency, the creature is used to explain unwanted pregnancies.
J7LV TIL In captivity, a killer whale is usually confined to a small pool, where it spends much time at the surface and often has to swim in a circle. Consequently, the tissue in its dorsal fin doesn’t get much of a workout, and starts to atrophy (wastes away due to lack of use), and it falls over.
OGN7 TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.