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TIL There is a monument in central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia celebrating the Beatles. It was built because in Mongolian communist times, local people would sit around listening to forbidden western music and discussing the values of freedom and democracy.

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5YZJ8 TIL of the Asian corn borer, a species of moth that can mimic the echolocation sounds of a bat (their natural predator) and is used to paralyze females during courtship. Normally ineffective at copulating, when the male makes this sound - the female freezes in fear (thus making reproduction easier).
ADPOa TIL magenta is an imaginary color; allcolors have their own wave length except magenta. The only wave lengths between blue and red are yellow green and orange etc if blue cones are slightly stimulated and red cones are slightly stimulated, but green isn’t detecting anything own brains create magenta
lOWA TIL Humans with extra nipples can only have them along two ‘milk lines’ in the human body, a remnant of our mammalian ancestors.
R5ew6 TIL that JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, often seen as a nostalgic tribute to Britain's naval glory, may actually reflect his admiration for progress and modernity challenging the widely held belief that the painting mourns the past
5YkAD TIL This tower in Yorkshire is the tallest folly in the world. It was erected by John Edward Wainhouse and was originally going to be a mill chimney but was converted into a viewing platform to look over a private garden because of a neighbour's feud.