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TIL that in Japanese Folklore, the Konaki-Jiji has the body of a baby with the head of an old man. It lies on the side of the road crying, waiting for a kind-hearted traveler to pick it up. Once the Konaki-Jiji is picked up, it turns into a heavy stone that crushes the victim to death.

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R5lea TIL in this scene from the film version of In Cold Blood, the tears streaming down Robert Blake's face from the the reflection of the rain on the window was unplanned.
R77v4 TIL Joe Perry (Guitarist from Aerosmith) composed the theme tune to Spider-Man (1994 TV Series)
wNmo TIL of silent discos, also known as silent raves. These are dance parties where all of the participants are wearing headphones to hear the music. Those not wearing them experience silence, and people seemingly dancing to nothing.
X0aWP TIL tardigrades, also known as water bears, are among the most resilient creatures on Earth? They can survive temperatures as low as -272°C (-458°F) and as high as 150°C (302°F), pressures six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, and even the vacuum of space.
ANL1g TIL that the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.