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TIL In studies, pigeons and honeybees were able to differentiate between two artist's styles.

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e01l5 TIL of the Pazzi conspiracy, an attempt by the Pazzi family to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici and his brother Giuliano and displace the Medici family as the rulers of renaissance era Florence. Lorenzo survived the plot and the way he dealt with it led to greater public support for the Medici regime.
7rl1O TIL that in WWII, an Australian soldier removed his own appendix in the middle of a Philippine jungle in 1944, without any anaesthetic and with only the use of a mirror and an ordinary knife. The operation took 4 and a half hours and he stitched himself up with jungle fibre.
od98 TIL that Angkor used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area greater than Paris. Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, which used stone quarried from only 0.5 km (0.3 mi) away, the entire city of Angkor was built with stone quarried over 35km (22 mi) away
ANO7x TIL there’s a house in NY that is legally haunted “and seller must inform the purchaser of the haunting.”
4XN5J TIL that Crazy Rich Asians casting was widely criticized for not being ethnically Chinese enough, not being Ethnically Malaysian enough, and using a non-Singaporean version of English.