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TIL Mona Lisa died from The Plague

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gMNEX TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m
ANQNB TIL Most rabbits can swim! Not saying they should, only that they have the ability if needed.
rR1ro TIL the Smash Mouth hit song "Walkin' on the Sun" is about the 1992 LA riots.
6mwJ TIL a researcher in the 1970s blindfolded participants and told them they were going to play tug-of-war against another team. When they were told they had 3 others pulling with them, they pulled 18% less strenuously than when they were told they were alone. The effect is now known as social loafing.
6E1lm TIL that China's percentage of the world population has actually been decreasing for two centuries now. In 1800 it was almost 40% - about twice as high as it is today.