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

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7x6X TIL In 1997, an Emory researcher died as a result of a monkey flinging poop into her eyes.
oRj1Y TIL J.R.R. Tolkien was a supporter of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco
l7v7V TIL of a court in France which stopped a girl being named "Nutella" and forcibly renamed her to Ella in the absence of her parents. The Judge said that the name Nutella would "only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts," a complaint not heard by her parents as they did not attend the hearing.
GYakG TIL Without Quantum mechanics, we couldn't understand why the Sun shines. Quantum tunnelling allows the atoms to spontaneously overcome the electromagnetic repulsion between positively charged protons and produce the nuclear fusion, something the heat and pressure at the Sun core can't do at his own
9YajD TIL in 2018 there was 752 acid attacks in London, more than 2 every single day.