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TiL that most sects of Islam either discourage or outright forbid creating art of living beings.

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x6Abb TIL In 2021, a 4 year old Giant Panda at a Belgian Zoo escaped from his enclosure and then attacked his keeper at the staff-restricted area.
4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
00kj TIL that more than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item.
p8owG TIL what sans serif means in a font name.
d8Ker TIL the first recorded death sentence in the British North American colonies was carried out in 1608 on Captain George Kendall, who was executed by firing squad at Jamestown colony for spying for the Spanish government.