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TIL there is a temple in India where anyone is welcome regardless of religion: The Lotus Temple.

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XEBDQ TIL Steve Martin leaked his own rider, which includes a roasted chicken to use as a dancing puppet, a pair of swim trunks in case there is a pool onstage, and a booklet called "How to Make Money From the Banjo". (The booklet must be more than two pages long.)
OGb0a TIL 50% of the global population is estimated to be infected with a mind-altering brain parasite linked to schizophrenia, suicidal ideation, and there’s no cure.
m1VLY TIL In 1942 Punxatawney Phil (the Groundhog) did not make a prediction on the remaining length of winter but claimed to only see a partial shadow, adding that, “War clouds have blacked out parts of the shadow.”
e0lJE TIL A species of Salamander called the Tiger Salamander have a unique way of controlling the population within their little society. If they sense their population has overgrown, they develop offspring with specially adapted heads and larger bodies to eat the larvae of their own species.
kJo74 TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.