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TIL Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak is the cover model for Pulp's 1998 album 'This is Hardcore'.

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M7E5B TIL The Old Fisherman, painted in 1902 by Tivadar Kosztka, is an oddly asymmetrical piece. It was discovered the painting contains two hidden images. Mirroring the left or the right side, two symmetrical images are created- a Godly man praying in nature, or the Devil in an industrialized landscape.
KYd1a TIL Catnip effects big cats aswell (cougars, leopards, lions, etc.) but 1 in 3 cats are unaffected by catnip and it is a hereditary behavior.
8avJa TIL That Paul McCartney is credited for chewing celery as percussion in a Beach Boys song
BrBpK TIL mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect is called Democide
4l06 TIL that Ernest Hemingway once fired a sub-machine gun at sharks that attacked a tuna he was trying to land; the blood from the bullets caused the sharks to attack even harder