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TIL theres a guy named Oli London who's an insane 'koreaboo' who has spent around £265,000 on plastic surgery to look like Park Jimin from the global K-Pop group BTS and has recently MARRIED a cardboard cut out of his K-Pop idol.

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VM84D TIL Mozart wrote a Piano Sonata for Rose Cannabich, his 15 year old pupil. Mozart described it as a sort of a portrait of "a very beautiful well-behaved girl, very sensible and demure for her age, serious, speaking little but, when she does, with grace and friendliness"
X9oP TIL that some “scientists” in the 1800’s believed Irish immigrants were ape-like, dog-like, and racially primitive.
m1kby TIL we perceive being wet primarily from the coldness of the of water evaporating. For a liquid to turn into gas, energy is needed (ex motion or heat), so energy is expended in the process. In this case from the heat of our skin. A fridge/freezer uses the same principle).
4Xa5g TIL of "starlight tours", a practice of the Saskatoon police that involved arresting Canadian indigenous people and dropping them off oustide city limits to freeze to death. It went from the 1970's to the early 2000's.
epDm5 TIL that dogs have specific tastebuds fine-tuned to the taste of water, so they experience it differently than humans who often describe it as “tasteless”