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TIL that the video for Weird Al's "Smells like Nirvana" was shot in the same sound stage as the clip for Smells like teen spirit and also used most of the extras from the original, including the janitor that's featured in various scenes.

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5YlDD TIL that the reason most long term depressed people that "feel less", remember less and experience " blurred memory" is due shrinkage of the hippocampus.
4kvZ6 TIL when Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in Moscow, he said to the interpreter about his communist beliefs and intention to obtain the nationality of the USSR. For his twentieth birthday, two days after Oswald's arrival, this interpreter gives him a copy of Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot".
gM7b TIL that a crucial section of the Quran may have been mistranslated. According to a scholar of ancient Semitic languages, the 72 virgins that await martyrs in paradise are actually 72 white raisins.
gMObb TIL many of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the female reproductive system got details wrong. Due to the rarity of female cadavers, he extrapolated from animals, with the resulting drawings of the female reproductive organs resembling those of animals more than humans.
d8WZr TIL that Chinese lion dance isn't just for parades. It's also a competitive highly acrobatic sport with an annual world championship.