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TIL the presence of eyebrows is more important for facial recognition than the presence of eyes.

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gMgD4 TIL that the most famous picture of Audrey Hepburn was taken in a lunch-break during the filming of War and Peace (1956).
bBZE TIL in 1956 a man appeared on the popular TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” who had witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14th, 1865
YRjP TIL there is a school in Tracy, CA named Millenium High School. They’re mascot is the Falcon. They are the Millenium Falcons.
1l8V TIL mail order shops sold nose hair trimmers cheaply to build lists of people too embarrassed to buy them in person, and therefore very likely to buy more embarrassing things via the mail.
VW8m TIL that during the Parsley Massacre, the Dominican soldiers would grab a parsley plant and ask what it was called. If the person couldn’t roll the R in the Spanish word (Perejil) they were executed. Up to 30,000 people might have been killed through that method.