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TIL Mona Lisa (the painting) has its own mailbox for receiving fan mail and flowers.

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J16GV TIL that in one bestiality case in colonial Plymouth, sixteen-year-old Thomas Grazer was forced to point out the sheep he’d had sex with from a line-up; he then had to watch the animals be killed before he himself was executed.
epll5 TIL: Although Everest is the highest mountain on Earth (from sea level) , Muana Kea is the tallest (measuring base to height).)
Zp4lG TIL February 22nd is National Margarita Day, a fictitious food holiday for Margarita lovers.
p8Vj8 TIL that the Venus flytraps plant puts out an extremely small magnetic field while catching bugs
ANYQ7 TIL there's an unexplained global effect called "The Hum" only heard by about 2-4% of the world's population. The phenomenon was recorded as early as the 1970s, and its possible causes range from industrial environments, to neurological reasons, to tinnitus, to fish.