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TIL it is impossible for modern computers to simulate a crumpled ball of paper.

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D1Rar TIL the Vatican Church owns $30 billion in Australian real estate alone. Their global real estate wealth is incalculable.
M7bZm TIL that despite creating one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias remains largely unknown today.
b6kj TIL that a man who gave away his fortune to charity also donated a kidney to a stranger, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure were about 1 in 4,000 and “to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger”
loJaK TIL in Japanese department stores, the staff will offer to put a plastic cover on your shopping bag when it rains. All of the staff knows it is raining outside without looking is because of a special BGM played only when it rains.
neaaG TIL that before the adoption of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, there's historical evidence for "first sleep" and "second sleep"—that is, an interrupted pattern of sleep in two shifts of slumber roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between.