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TIL Japan has its own version of Bigfoot and it's called Hibagon.

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OAPX TIL the Vatican added 7,000 LEDs to illuminate Michelangelo’s 6,000-square-foot Sistine Chapel ceiling painting. Thanks to this intervention, the work is now more visible to visitors than it has ever been in its 500-year history, including the years in which it was lit by daylight.
x6Xxw TIL that IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, was purchased by Amazon in 1998 and has been owned by them since then
nWnVb TIL out of the 50 U.S. states, 46 allow a person to just decide their name has changed & start using the new one with no paperwork required.
DbNV TIL the Bamiyan Buddha statues taken down by the Taliban in 2001 have been recreated using holographic 3D Laser Light Projection
DQ7xe TIL that Judas Goats, sterilized goats with radio collars who blend in with wild goats, have been used to save the ecosystems of two major island habitats