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TIL that there is an orchid that looks like a monkey’s face. Also called the Dracula Orchid (Dracula simia).

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5Kk TIL that 27% of American adults didn’t read a book in 2006, and 43% didn’t read a book in 2002. “Those who said they never attend religious services read nearly twice as many as those who attend frequently.”
kgLW TIL Meher Baba (an Indian spiritual master) didn’t speak for the last 44 years of his life
p89Mp TIL that Heath Ledger prepared for the Joker role by going into complete isolation for 6 weeks in a hotel room with only a journal and comic books related to the script and Joker.
rRDEw TIL: of the Merryhill museum of art in middle of nowhere Washington State, originally intended as a country mansion for entrepreneur Sam Hill, In 1917 he was convinced by a friend to turn it into “a museum for the public good, and for the betterment of French art in the far Northwest of America.”
E1mEW TIL in 2011 a small team of Japanese Firefighters saved Tokyo from being uninhabitable for decades by bravely keeping spent fuel rods cooled and unexposed