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TIL Lucky Rich from Australia was the most tattooed man. He has spent over 1,000 hours having his body modified by hundreds of tattoo artists.

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GKMj TIL: Utah has been giving free homes to homeless people since 2005 which since then made it more cost efficient to help the homeless and cut the chronic homelessness in Utah by 74%.
VMppk TIL that owls can’t move their eyes in their sockets making their 180 degree neck turning necessary to see around them
8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
W77lN TIL slime molds are problem solvers, scooting around on pseudopods before ballooning to release their spores. They can find the shortest path through a maze, and they inspired a slime-mold algorithm that researchers used to map filaments of dark matter connecting galaxies in the universe.
D1kg TIL Louie CK once repeatedly asked Donald Rumsfeld whether or not he is a lizard, live in XM radio.