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TIL that Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval.

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Brdme TIL the size of a lion’s mane is tied to hormone production and fertility, and a larger, thicker mane will attract more females. If a lion is neutered, its mane will fall out.
0wbwA TIL Original hosts usually have low death rates when infected with a pathogen, with fatality rates tending to be much higher in new hosts
LMgP TIL a Native American Chief ran 150 miles without rest to warn his friends in a white village of an impending attack by other tribes. The Chief died of exhaustion, but the village was saved and named after him.
4WrR TIL that a man mistakenly raised ‘puppies’ for two years - before finding out they’re black bears.
p8pGp TIL after the death of the 4th-century BCE Mausolus of Caria (in Anatolia), his wife and sister Artemisia reigned for 2 years. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in his honour, and in her grief is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink