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TIL that Neil Patrick Harris once unveiled a graphic meat platter arranged to resemble Amy Winehouse’s corpse at his 2011 Halloween party.

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dojZ TIL the Kawaya Kami is a modern Shinto deity, who reigns over toilets. He was thought to be very beautiful, and as such his toilets must be kept clean and nicely decorated. If you don’t keep your toilet clean, he may cause infants to be born ugly and unhappy.
jNJpR TIL that the japanese anime Sailor Moon originally depicted Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus as a lesbian couple who often shared tender moments and longing glances. But when distributors took the show abroad, their relationship got altered.
0wJ4j TIL the first ever synthetically produced color pigment, Egyptian blue, was created around 2,200 B.C. In 2006 scientists discovered it glows under fluorescent lights, allowing us to detect it on artifacts where it is no longer visible to the naked eye.
0daLp TIL that there’s a medical phenomenon called "stone baby" (lithopedion) where a fetus can calcify inside the mother and remain there undetected for decades.
xga0 TIL of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnnsen, a dutch warship that evaded the Japanese during world war 2 by planting trees all around the ship and sailing close to islands. So the Japanese wouldn’t think it was an enemy ship but part of an island. The ship was the only one of the fleet to return.