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TIL there's a Dumb and Dumber spinoff cartoon.

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xVbkg TIL about 'Hunger Stones' - hydrological famine memorials and warnings carved and erected throughout Central Europe from the 15th to 19th centuries. Recent lengthy dry spells across Europe revealed some of them near the German border with Czech Republic.
9wV07 TIL about the 'Sacamantecas' (Spanish for "Fat Extractor"), a bogeyman in Spanish folklore similar to the sack man, based on Manuel Blanco, Spain's first documented serial killer who abducted people to extract their body fat and make soap.
Brg8W TIL that Byzantium not only developed sophisticated systems for taxation, justice, administration, and military deployment, but is also rarely credited with refuting Aristotle’s theory of falling bodies, one thousand years before Galileo.
Lk7wQ TIL Covert Narcissits often self-identity as ”Introverts” even tho Introverts are not Covert Narcissits.
nWxod TIL that during the French Revolution, the French used a completely different calendar system in an effort to remove all religious and loyalist influence from their calendar. It lasted for about 12 years.