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TIL South korea has more population density than India and netherlands

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7rvLx TIL during solar eclipses, tree leaves act as pinhole cameras, resulting in trees casting crescent-shaped shadows on the ground. This effect puzzled Aristotle in the 4th Century BC.
NxV6 TIL that in 2001, British author Giles Foden (Last King of Scotland) compared Eminem to Robert Browning, one of the foremost Victorian poets, and remarked that “a brief examination of ‘Stan’ reveals it to have all the depth and texture of the greatest examples of English verse.”
0Oov TIL that Manchu mothers used to fellate their male babies instead of kissing them, because kissing was seen as sexual while the former was not.
woJBP TIL there have been 16 attempted or thwarted assassination plots against former or current U.S. Presidents since 2000.
nWo49 TIL that the two earliest versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch were created with egg tempera and crayon on cardboard. These editions are now in the Oslo National Gallery and the Munch Museum.