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TIL that some butterflies drink tears to survive

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J1jOB TIL The Japanese art form of Kusôzu, which means “painting of the nine stages of a decaying corpse”, portrays the sequential decay of a cadaver, usually female, in graphic detail. The paintings are meant to encourage contemplation on the repulsive aspects of the body and discourage sexual desire.
4kgXN TIL The UK's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 has a special provision for Peter Pan
5Yb7p TIL that the priests in the ancient Nazca civilization had their skulls tightly wrapped between boards in their childhood to push the bones upwards, producing elongated craniums which made them look like aliens.
GYBZ5 [TIL] All interviews shown in the movie Intersellar were real interviews with people that lived through the Dust Bowl in the 1930's. These are not actors. This happened to them.
e0VlL TIL that in 1895 a white man in Louisiana was lynched by a white crowd for an attempt to lynch a black woman