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TIL that Ferdinand Cheval, a postman, every day, for 35 years, picked up stones during his daily mail round. He used the stones to build ‘the perfect palace’, one of the most beautiful amateur architectural works known today.

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nMdB TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”. (pdf)
y9vV TIL the difference between Wile E. Coyote and Ralph Coyote. Both had brown fur and pointy ears, but Wile E. had a black nose, yellow eyes, and went after the Roadrunner, while Ralph had a red nose, white eyes, and went after sheep (guarded by Sam Sheepdog).
6KY7 TIL that the physics behind the CGI in the movie Interstellar was so complex that it led to the discovery of the true shape of black holes
b6mnZ TIL in 2004, a man named Brian Jones purchase the house where much of A Christmas Story was filmed and restored it. Then he opened a gift shop across the street, museum next to it.
BgwNL TIL that you can get “addicted” to nasal spray — that is, you can develop a dependency called rebound congestion on Afrin (Oxymetazoline) or Phenyl Ephrine because it shrinks the blood vessels in the nasal passage, causing more irritation when stopping use.