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TIL that headfooters or tadpole people are basic depictions of humans as figures lacking a torso, with arms and legs connected to the head. They show up in the drawings of young children before they have learned to create torsos and advance to more lifelike representations like stick figures.

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b99mp TIL that since 1405 until the present day without interruption, the city of Lausanne (Switzerland) has maintained a lookout in the Cathedral bell tower. The lookout announces the time by yelling the hour from 10 pm to 2 am, 365 days a year. The lookout cries the hour to each cardinal direction
gM5ly TIL that Queen Elizabeth is not the oldest state leader. The oldest leader is Mahathir Mohamad, PM of Malaysia, sitting at 94 years and 227 days
b9pvZ TIL The Women's Titanic Memorial Assosciation erected a statue in Washington D.C. to honor the men who gave their lives on the Titanic so that women and children could live
Kr4a TIL that term “robotics” was accidentally coined by science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941.
jQrR TIL of Beat ‘Em & Eat 'Em, a game for the Atari 2600, where the goal is to control two nude women on the street who must catch semen in their mouths that comes from a masturbating man on a rooftop.