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TIL Tattoo’s were status symbols of wealth in Victorian Britain.

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yVaeJ TIL Quentin Tarantino got the idea for Death Proof (2007) from Sean Penn. One night while sharing drinks, Tarantino said he wanted to buy a Volvo because of its strong reputation for safety. But Penn suggested that he buy whatever car he wanted & then have a crew of stuntmen "death proof" it instead
KO8VB TIL tibetans have more than twice the amount of forearm blood flow due to sharing more than 6% of their genes from Denisova hominins
1ajNP TIL of Karl May, Hitler's favorite author, a conman who wrote novel's about Old Shatterhand, a German One Punch Man in the Wild West (who May claimed was actually himself, even though he'd never been to the US or even out of Germany at that point).
kOpbm TIL that panthers are not their own species, but rather " melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard (P. pardus) in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar (P. onca) in the Americas."
oBAyA Today i learned that you can buy 13 metric tons of bread for 16,250 pounds in birmingham.