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TIL differences in camera lenses can cause people to be more or less photogenic in pictures.

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Qd9p TIL that some aboriginal languages have no words for left/right. As a result, instead of ordering a sequence of images showing someone getting older from left to right, like English speakers would, they order them from east to west, regardless of what way they are facing themselves.
rRvkW TIL that every Christmas season, an estimated 3.6 million Japanese families treat themselves to Kentucky Fried Chicken, in what has become a nationwide tradition.
vOvj TIL the actor who played character Random Task in Austin Powers (the parody of Odd Job from 007 films) is serving a life sentence for torture and rape.
94YD TIL Spain’s Paralympic basketball team were ordered to return their gold medals won in Sydney in 2000 after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.
kNKW TIL that a live snail was kept in a museum for years before anyone knew it was alive