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TIL a filmmaker made a 10-hour movie of paint drying, forcing the British ratings board to sit through it to give it a classification in protest of film censorship.

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nexOo TIL of Phineas Gage, a man who had a large metal rod go completely through his head and destroy his brain’s left frontal lobe. Miraculously he survived, and was able to recover his social skills over time although people noted changes to his personality, behavior, and memory.
eY0E TIL In 2009, a US postal worker on disability was busted when she went on “The Price is Right” TV game show and was seen miraculously spinning the ‘Big Wheel’
nWpV9 TIL that in 1979, an unknown man known as the "Toynbee Tiles" artist began placing mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of cities across the U.S. and South America, featuring cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter.
nn5W TIL that nuclear explosions were considered for large construction projects in the 1970s
6eJ8 TIL there exists a sword, a jewel, and a mirror that are all over 1,000 years old and extremely sacred to Japan. They are so important that their locations are theorized but unconfirmed and their last sighting was in 1993 during Emperor Akihito’s enthronement but were also covered in packages.