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TIL the Mona Lisa has its own mailbox in which the painting receives fan mail and flowers addressed to it.

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R7gx8 TIL that after a male Darwin’s bark spider fertilizes a female, he plugs up the female’s genitals with a mating plug. Using silk, the female traps the male so that he’s stuck to her genitals, saving him for when she’s hungry.
RAX8 TIL that KIC 8462852 is a star that might contain advanced civilization, as there so far as been no other explanation for it’s behavior.
l7QLK TIL a 2012 study found the divorce rate for arranged marriages was 4%, whereas, the divorce rate for autonomous marriages in the US was 40%.
8Gw8 TIL that In the early 20th century there were approximately 4,000 carousels throughout the United States. By the 21st century that number had been reduced to 150.
5YpRr TIL: In the 1930s, metallic paints were invented for cars. They were made with fish scales and it would take 40,000 herring to make a single kilo of paint.