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TIL 87% of Teenagers in the USA own iPhones

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7JVp TIL Macaulay Culkin bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes
JYVg1 TIL Due to Galileo's training in Renaissance art and an understanding of chiaroscuro (a technique for shading light and dark) he quickly understood that the moon shadows he was seeing were actually mountains and craters. From his sketches, he made estimates of their heights and depths
Z8E6Q TIL some indigenous people are known to have deciphered bird language and used it to locate predators that birds were warning other birds about
1aoZr TIL about Henry VIII's "eavesdrop" figures: he has creepy statues built onto ceiling beams to warn against gossip or dissension and foster paranoia
e0abk TIL the dwarf actors in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie could only survive in their costumes for five to seven minutes before their oxygen depleted, so a paramedic with a stop watch was required on set in order to keep the takes quick, and the actors from asphyxiating.