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b9jvQ Today I learned that World of Tanks partnered with Belavia to make a World of Tanks plane
wLYwY TIL that a study of Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to be infecting around 1,000 people every day in Britain, has found that it makes chimpanzees more attracted to the smell of leopards, their main predators in the wild.
jKrv TIL John Marley’s scream of terror after seeing the horse head in The Godfather is genuine, as they used a fake in rehearsals and swapped for a real head during shooting without Marley’s knowledge
16K8V TIL that in Victorian England, post-mortem photography was a common way to memorialise loved ones - dead children were often posed to look alive, with painted-on eyes or blushed cheeks, and families would gather for their first and only portrait with the deceased.
nwkr TIL Bill Gates wrote his school’s computer program for scheduling students in their classes. He edited it so he would end up sitting with female students.