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TIL the brains of people under the influence of LSD and the brains of babies resemble each other

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d8Ky7 TIL that in 2014 China banned the use of puns and wordplay for comic effect because they cause 'cultural and linguistic chaos'
X0XWR TIL after bandit George Parrott was lynched in Wyoming in 1881, some of his skin was tanned and turned into shoes. The third governor of Wyoming wore the shoes at his inaugural ball.
16gkP Today I learned Adolph Hitler is still alive and is a politician in Namibia (Btw the facts are fake but he is a real Namibian politician)
woGR8 TIL that Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with his cousin over either a mathematical formula or who was the superior mathematician. He wore a prosthetic nose for the rest of his life.
Ypw47 TIL German-American Billionaire Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel wrote an article in April 2009 stating that "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"