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TIL Marilyn Monroe’s signature breathy voice was a strategy to conceal her stutter

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9Y5JG TIL the Church of Satan does not believe in the Devil, neither a Christian nor Islamic notion of Satan. They view Satan as a positive archetype who represents pride, individualism and enlightenment, and as a symbol of defiance against the Abrahamic faiths suppression of humanity's natural instincts.
gGvX TIL A man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating the last indochinease tiger in China
1AKO TIL UC Berkeley is developing a free timeline of the history of everything– Starting from the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago to the present.
awrQM TIL a man in China sold his kidney to buy an iPhone when he was 17 and is now bedridden for life.
OoxQR TIL descendants of Pablo Escobar's 4 pet hippopotami, aka "cocaine hippos" are an invasive species "rewilding" parts of the ecosystem. The hippos' diet & body size let them replay a role of similar extinct species like the giant llama, making northern Colombia more like the late Pleistocene Epoch.