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TIL people have been trying to figure out whether fat collected from dead pigs was used to move the big rocks during the construction of Stonehenge

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8yZa TIL that the figure in Edvard Munch’s the Scream is not screaming. The figure is hearing a scream.
RKw4 TIL that in 2012, researchers found that people who watch Fox News were less informed than people who didn’t watch news at all
ajGb TIL In 2004, a group in Melbourne, Victoria organised an event where 30 men would grow a moustache for 30 days in order to raise awareness for prostate cancer and depression in men. The group later formed into the “Movember Foundation Charity” which has since raised $174-million worldwide.
bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.
15LO TIL there is a type of mosquitoes called Toxorhynchites and they do not consume blood! Instead they prey on other Mosquito larvae.